RAPID: Addressing the Challenges of Increasing Interest in Computing at the Undergraduate Level through Institutional Transformation

RAPID：通过机构转型应对本科生对计算兴趣日益浓厚的挑战

• 批准号: 1752904
• 负责人: Thomas Cortina
• 金额: $ 19.97万
• 依托单位: Carnegie-Mellon University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-09-15 至 2018-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1752904&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RAPID; Addressing; Challenges; Increasing; Interest

Carnegie-Mellon University proposes to engage leaders in computer science (CS) education in re-imagining the way CS is taught in response to 21st Century Challenges. Many CS departments are currently facing significant increases in undergraduate enrollment and much of the growth may be attributable to students who are interested not just in CS, but in CS combined with other computing-enabled disciplines. This trend could well accelerate as the national effort to increase access to computing and computational thinking in grades K-12 gains traction.The proposed project includes a 2-day workshop that will bring together 100 CS education experts from various colleges including research universities, liberal arts and minority-serving colleges, and community colleges, along with professional computing organizations and leading industry partners. It will focus on a number of key questions that seek to understand growing enrollment pressures in various types of colleges and regions, the need to continue efforts to increase diversity in computing, the readiness of the computing education community to embrace institutional changes that might, for example, provide multiple and/or multi-disciplinary pathways through their programs, and whether it is time for a larger summit of CS education leaders to start to develop a roadmap for broad and sustained change at the undergraduate level.

卡内基-梅隆大学建议让计算机科学(CS)教育的领导者重新设想计算机科学(CS)的教学方式，以应对21世纪的挑战。许多计算机科学系目前面临着本科生入学人数的大幅增加，其中很大一部分增长可能是因为学生不仅对计算机科学感兴趣，而且还对计算机科学与其他支持计算的学科相结合感兴趣。随着国家努力增加K-12年级学生接触计算和计算思维的机会，这一趋势可能会加速。拟议的项目包括一个为期两天的研讨会，来自不同学院的100名CS教育专家将聚集在一起，包括研究型大学、文科和少数族裔服务学院、社区学院，以及专业计算组织和领先的行业合作伙伴。它将集中在一些关键问题上，这些问题试图了解各种类型的大学和地区日益增长的招生压力，继续努力增加计算多样性的必要性，计算机教育社区是否准备好接受机构改革，例如，可能通过他们的课程提供多学科和/或多学科途径，以及是否到了召开一次更大规模的CS教育领导人峰会的时候，开始为本科水平的广泛和持续的变革制定路线图。