Envisioning Workshops for Computing in Undergraduate Education

西北大学与普渡大学和科罗拉多大学合作，提出了一系列的三个设想研讨会计算在本科教育的目标，引发全国对话的计算在本科教育中的作用。最近计算机科学（CS）课程的非专业入学人数激增-即使是相对先进的课程-对于许多提供为传统CS专业设计的课程的部门来说，这是一个挑战，并且可能与其他学科的教师合作的经验有限。这些研讨会将开启一场大规模的讨论，讨论计算和计算机科学在非计算学科中的作用，以及计算机科学系如何开发新的跨学科途径和课程，以更好地满足不断增长和日益多样化的学生群体的教育需求，以了解更多关于计算和计算机科学的知识。哪些已经在做，哪些正在做？--激发有助于应对挑战的研究。- 创建建议，甚至模板，这将有助于指导部门和机构。--为工作和成果提供可信度。具体而言，研讨会的目的是以更具体、更可行的方式开始理解将计算纳入大学和学院学位课程的普遍挑战。与会者将从服务于不同学生群体的各种机构中选出，包括CS和其他教师。预计这些讲习班将在计算机科学研究和教育界以及其他学科的利益攸关方社区内产生更大的一致性，从而更好地理解挑战，该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查进行评估，被认为值得支持的搜索.

Northwestern University, partnering with Purdue University and the University of Colorado, proposes a series of three Envisioning Workshops for Computing in Undergraduate Education with the goal of sparking a national dialog about the role of computing in undergraduate education. The recent surge in non-major enrollments in Computer Science (CS) courses -- even relatively advanced courses -- has been challenging for many departments that offer curricula designed for traditional CS majors, and that may have limited experience working with faculty in other disciplines on curricula and courses. These workshops will open a large-scale discussion on the role of computing and CS in non-computing disciplines, and on how CS departments can develop new interdisciplinary pathways and curricula to better meet the educational needs of the growing and increasingly diverse student body open to learn more about computing and CS.Such a national dialog has the potential to: -- Show departments a way forward and models for engagement; what is already being done, and what is working? -- Spark research that can help address the challenge. -- Create recommendations, and even templates, that will help guide departments and institutions. -- Provide credibility to the effort and the resulting outcomes.Specifically, the workshops will be aimed at beginning the process of understanding, in more specific and more actionable ways, the general challenge of incorporating computing into degree pathways across universities and colleges. Attendees will be drawn from a wide range of institutions serving diverse student populations, and include both CS and other faculty. The workshops are expected to produce a greater alignment within the CS research and educational community, and stakeholder communities based in other disciplines, leading to a better understanding of the challenges, and how they might be addressed more comprehensively and more effectively.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.