Workshops Supporting the Development of a Workbook for Liberal Arts Computing Programs

该项目旨在通过为教师举办一系列研讨会来服务于国家利益，这些研讨会围绕课程设计工作簿组织，该工作簿支持文科院校计算机课程的课程创新。该练习册是由文学课程设计和文科课程创新的趋势分析。它通过调整他们的课程与他们独特的使命，身份，多样性和包容性目标，以及机构环境的过程中，同时被告知即将到来的ACM/IEEE/AAAI CS2023课程指南的程序。研讨会将在计算机械协会（ACM）计算机科学教育特别兴趣小组（SIGCSE）2024技术研讨会上举行，允许所有感兴趣的教育工作者参加，并在尽可能多的地区大学计算科学联盟（CCSC）会议上尽可能扩大与教师的联系，使其旅行资源更加有限。这些研讨会将为文科计算教育界的传播和参与提供重要组成部分。这些讲习班还将有助于改进课程设计工作手册，采用新的迭代工作手册设计方法，并确定使用工作手册程序的最佳做法。该工作手册将广泛影响以文科为重点的机构的创新课程设计。这将反过来影响那些将通过创新课程完成计算课程的学生。这些学生将有助于满足国家对以强大的文科基础为基础的技术技能培训的劳动力的需求。NSF IUSE：EDU计划支持研究和开发项目，以提高所有学生STEM教育的有效性。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标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project aims to serve the national interest by hosting a series of workshops for faculty, organized around a curriculum design workbook that supports curricular innovation in computing programs at liberal arts colleges. The workbook is informed by literature on curriculum design and analysis of trends in liberal arts curriculum innovation. It guides programs through a process of aligning their curriculum with their unique mission, identity, diversity and inclusion goals, and institutional contexts, while being informed by the forthcoming ACM/IEEE/AAAI CS2023 curriculum guidelines. Workshops will be held at the Association of Computing Machinery’s (ACM) Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) 2024 Technical Symposium, allowing participation by all interested educators, and at as many regional Consortium of Computing Sciences in Colleges (CCSC) conferences as possible to broaden outreach to faculty with more limited travel resources. The workshops will provide an important component of dissemination and engagement with the liberal arts computing education community. The workshops will also serve to improve the curriculum design workbook utilizing a novel method of iterative workbook design and identification of best practices for using the workbook’s process. The workbook will broadly impact innovative curricular design at liberal arts-focused institutions. This will, in turn, impact the students who will complete computing programs with innovative curricula. These students will help to fill the Nation’s needs for a workforce trained in technical skills grounded in a strong liberal arts foundation. The NSF IUSE: EDU Program supports research and development projects to improve the effectiveness of STEM education for all students. Through the Engaged Student Learning track, the program supports the creation, exploration, and implementation of promising practices and tools.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.