Early Adopters of Curriculum Initiative in Parallel and Distributed Computing at EduPar-12

EduPar-12 并行和分布式计算课程计划的早期采用者

• 批准号: 1238003
• 负责人: Sushil Prasad
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: Georgia State University Research Foundation, Inc.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-05-15 至 2013-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1238003&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Early; Adopters; Curriculum; Initiative; Parallel

The penetration of parallel and distributed computing (PDC) technology into the daily lives of users has made it imperative that computer scientists and engineers provide rapidly changing, but yet effective, efficient and reliable technology to consumers. This points to the urgent need for imparting a broad-based skill set in PDC technology at various levels in the educational fabric. However, the rapid change in computing technology and research advances challenge educators in knowing what to teach in any given semester. Employers face similar challenges regarding what constitutes basic expertise. In this context, a working group has taken up the challenge of developing PDC curricular guidelines for Computer Science and Computer Engineering undergraduates, with particular emphasis on identifying a core curriculum that represents what every graduate should know about PDC. Throughout 2010, the working group has deliberated upon various topics and subtopics, specifying both the expected minimum level of coverage and the desired learning outcomes; it employed Bloom's classification as the medium for expressing the desired level of expertise on a topic. A preliminary version of the core curriculum was released in Dec, 2010 (http://www.cs.gsu.edu/~tcpp/curriculum/index.php). A major mechanism for evaluating a snapshot of our guidelines is the Early Adopter competition, with grants from NSF and Intel. About four dozen early-adopter institutions are trying out this curriculum. We organized a workshop in Anchorage, May 2011, to bring together the early adopters and others interested in PDC education, primarily to receive the feedback from the Adopters, but also to stimulate discussion of curricular and other educational issues. This inaugural EduPar workshop - the first of its kind at IPDPS, being focused on educational matters - was a great success. This has led to a follow up EduPar-12 workshop that is being organized at IPDPS-12 in Shanghai with the support of this grant. The proposed curriculum is being revised currently for a formal released.

并行和分布式计算(PDC)技术已经渗透到用户的日常生活中，这使得计算机科学家和工程师必须向消费者提供快速变化但又有效、高效和可靠的技术。这表明迫切需要在教育结构的各个层面传授广泛的PDC技术技能。然而，计算机技术和研究进步的快速变化向教育者提出了挑战，要求他们知道在任何给定的学期都应该教授什么。关于什么是基本专业知识，雇主也面临着类似的挑战。在这方面，一个工作组接受了为计算机科学和计算机工程本科生制定PDC课程指南的挑战，特别强调确定一个核心课程，代表每个毕业生应该了解的PDC。在整个2010年，工作组审议了各种专题和副专题，具体说明了预期的最低覆盖率和期望的学习成果；它采用布卢姆的分类作为表达某一专题所需专门知识水平的媒介。核心课程的初步版本于2010年12月发布，(http://www.cs.gsu.edu/~tcpp/curriculum/index.php).评估我们指南的快照的一个主要机制是由NSF和英特尔提供资助的早期采用者竞赛。大约有40多家率先采用这门课程的机构正在试行这门课程。2011年5月，我们在安克雷奇组织了一次研讨会，将早期采用者和其他对PDC教育感兴趣的人聚集在一起，主要是为了获得采用者的反馈，但也是为了鼓励对课程和其他教育问题的讨论。首届EduPar研讨会取得了巨大成功，这是IPDPS第一次举办此类研讨会，重点讨论教育问题。这导致在这笔赠款的支持下，在上海的IPDPS-12上组织了一个后续的EduPar-12研讨会。拟议的课程目前正在进行修订，以正式发布。