IUSE/PFE:RED: The Connected Learner: Design Patterns for Transforming Computing and Informatics Education

北卡罗来纳大学夏洛特分校（University of North Carolina at Charlotte）的互联学习者项目是对本科计算机和信息学教育的重新定位，将重点放在学生与同龄人、专业和社区的联系上。该项目的愿景是将进入计算机和信息学本科课程的学生从对计算机感兴趣的人转变为具有计算机专业身份的人。该项目将改变教师对教育的态度，将他们的态度和行为从知识传播和讲课转变为一种新的方式，即发展教育活动，以支撑计算机知识和技能，培养成功的计算机专业人员。该项目将通过确定教学设计模式来促进和维持这种转变，以指导所有教师在本科计算和信息学课程中的教学课程。创新的教学和评估实践将在整个本科计算机和信息学课程中实施，展示这些实践在学生群体中的适用性和有效性；在社会经济地位和人口统计方面是不同的。该项目将为知识和评估制定分类和设计模式，以促进计算教育创新的扩展和传播。此外，该项目将研究建立可持续教育创新实践的关键因素，包括教师态度的转变和支持和维持学习实践的基础设施。该项目将评价和传播教学实践和经验教训。这个项目更广泛的影响是：对不同学生群体的教育影响（第一次上大学的学生，种族多样性，GPA多样性）；对STARSComputingCorps.org的高中和其他合作伙伴的社区影响；以及为该地区和国家在IT领域（包括：数据科学、网络安全、视觉分析和以人为本的设计）提供人才库的专业影响。预计互联学习者项目的主要成果是：提高为不同计算机专业学生提供的教育质量，提高保留率和毕业率，提供地区和国家计算机人才库，以及将教学研究与教师发展和进步相结合。该项目将通过公开的在线资源，以及期刊、会议、博客和社交网络出版物，传播教育设计模式、最佳实践示例和学术出版物，以促进教育变革和教师发展。

The Connected Learner project at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte is a re-orientation of undergraduate computing and informatics education to focus on student learning that connects to peers, the profession, and the community. The project vision is to transform the student entering an undergraduate computing and informatics program from a person with an interest in computing - to a person with an identity as a computing professional. The project will transform faculty attitude towards education, shifting their attitudes and behaviors away from knowledge transmission and lecturing toward a refreshed approach of developing educational activities that scaffold the computing knowledge and skills to build successful computing professionals. The project will catalyze and sustain this transition with the identification of pedagogical design patterns to guide all faculty teaching courses in the undergraduate computing and informatics curriculum. Innovative teaching and assessment practices will be implemented across an entire undergraduate computing and informatics curriculum, demonstrating the applicability and efficacy of these practices across a student body; which is diverse in terms of socio-economic status and demographics. The project will develop taxonomies and design patterns for knowledge and assessment to facilitate scaling and disseminating educational innovation in computing. Additionally, the project will examine the key factors in building a sustainable practice of educational innovation, which includes faculty attitudinal shifts and infrastructures to support and sustain learning practices. The project will evaluate and disseminate pedagogical practices and lessons learned. The broader impacts of this project are: educational impact on a diverse student population (first time college students, ethnic diversity, GPA diversity); community impact on high schools and other partners in STARSComputingCorps.org; and professional impact on providing the talent pool for the region and the country in IT (including: data science, cyber security, visual analytics, and human centered design). Key outcomes from the Connected Learner project are anticipated to be: an increase in the quality of education provided to a diverse population of computing students, improved retention and graduation rates, the provision of a regional and national talent pool in computing, and the integration of pedagogical research with faculty development and advancement. The project will disseminate educational design patterns, best practice examples, and scholarly publications for educational change and faculty development through a publicly available online resource, as well as through journals, conferences, blogs, and social network publications.