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，围绕课程设计工作手册组织，以支持文理学院计算机课程的课程创新。工作手册是由文献的课程设计和分析文科课程创新的趋势。在即将发布的ACM/IEEE/AAAI CS2023课程指南的指导下，它指导项目通过将课程与其独特的使命、身份、多样性和包容性目标以及机构背景相结合的过程。研讨会将在计算机协会（ACM）计算机科学教育特别兴趣小组（SIGCSE） 2024年技术研讨会上举行，允许所有感兴趣的教育工作者参加，并在尽可能多的区域大学计算科学联盟（CCSC）会议上举行，以扩大与旅行资源有限的教师的联系。这些工作坊将是文科计算机教育界传播和参与的重要组成部分。讲习班还将利用迭代工作簿设计的新方法和确定使用工作簿过程的最佳做法来改进课程设计工作簿。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。这反过来又会影响到那些将通过创新课程完成计算机专业的学生。这些学生将有助于填补国家对技术技能训练有素的劳动力的需求，这些劳动力以强大的文科基础为基础。NSF IUSE: EDU项目支持研究和开发项目，以提高所有学生STEM教育的有效性。通过参与学生学习轨道，该计划支持有前途的实践和工具的创建，探索和实施。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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.