RAPID: Learning from the Development of an On-Line CS Degree

RAPID：从在线计算机科学学位的发展中学习

• 批准号: 1246881
• 负责人: Terri Fiez
• 金额: $ 3.5万
• 依托单位: Oregon State University
• 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: 2012-10-01 至 2014-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1246881&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RAPID; Learning; Development; Line; CS

The U.S. Bureau of Labor and Statistics projects that 3 out of every 4 new jobs in science and engineering will be in computing fields through 2018. This corresponds to nearly 1,000,000 jobs in computing over the 2008-2018 time span. Meanwhile, the number of computer science and engineering graduates nationally is approximately 15,000 each year - falling well short of the future job needs. One solution to bridging this gap is to focus on creating opportunities for the underemployed and unemployed graduates to align their skills to opportunities that exist in computing. Oregon State University recently announced a new program to do exactly that. They are launching a new on-line post baccalaureate degree in Computer Science where students can earn a second Bachelor of Science degree in as short as one year without relocating. The process of developing this degree program has already presented many new challenges. These topics and others are common to programs as they move to more remote delivery formats. The team intends to capture its journey developing this program. The team will capture the steps taken, what worked and what did not. As on-line education is taking off nationally and becoming more mainstream, capturing lessons learned from one program can help inform others as they move into this new paradigm of education.

美国劳工和统计局预测，到2018年，科学和工程领域每4个新工作岗位中就有3个将在计算机领域。这相当于2008-2018年间计算领域的近100万个工作岗位。与此同时，全国每年计算机科学和工程专业毕业生的数量约为15,000人--远远不能满足未来的工作需求。弥合这一差距的一个解决方案是，专注于为未充分就业和失业的毕业生创造机会，使他们的技能与计算机领域存在的机会保持一致。俄勒冈州立大学最近宣布了一项新的项目来实现这一点。他们正在推出一项新的在线计算机科学学士学位后学位，学生可以在短短一年内获得第二个理科学士学位，而无需搬迁。发展这一学位课程的过程已经提出了许多新的挑战。这些主题和其他主题对于程序来说是常见的，因为它们正在转向更远程的交付格式。该团队打算在开发这个项目的过程中记录下来。团队将记录所采取的步骤，哪些步骤奏效，哪些步骤无效。随着在线教育在全国范围内的兴起并变得更加主流，从一个项目中获取经验教训可以帮助其他人在进入这种新的教育范式时获得信息。