Computing History Resource Adaptation (CHRAD)

计算机科学（31）本项目着重于用“历史方法”教授非专业计算机科学概览课程。通过对相关历史材料的改编，历史是贯穿整个课程的主题。在适当的情况下，项目负责人正在开发材料的数字转换，以提高课程的交付。项目团队正在与查尔斯巴贝奇研究所、计算机博物馆历史中心、IEEE历史中心和弗吉尼亚理工大学的计算历史中心密切合作。这些中心中的每一个都已经确定、保存了大量与计算历史有关的典型材料，并在许多情况下对其进行了编目。项目团队也正在为这个活动创建一个专门的网站。学生将可以直接访问从这个项目中产生的数字化材料，与课程相关的历史材料的收集，以及到其他有用和相关网站的链接。我们的期望是，这门课程将发生巨大的变化，从枯燥的事实内容转变为包含人物、地点和事件的动态插曲。这样，非专业的计算机课程就会有趣得多。它将激励更多的学生将计算机作为他们的专业，将有助于学生的终身学习经验，将鼓励来自不同和少数民族社区的学生欣赏计算机，并将提高学生的保留率。学生也将对探究的本质、创新的过程、所涉及的约束和驱动因素以及人的维度有更好的认识。

Computer Science (31)This project focuses on the "history approach" to teach an overview course in computer science for non-majors. History is an ongoing theme throughout the course through the adaptation of relevant historical materials. Where appropriate, the project leaders are developing digital conversion of materials to enhance the course delivery. The project team is working closely with the Charles Babbage Institute, the Computer Museum History Center, the IEEE History Center, and the Computing History Center at Virginia Tech. Each of these centers has already identified, preserved, and in many cases catalogued a vast quantity of the exemplary materials pertaining to computing history. The project team is also creating a dedicated website solely for this activity. Students will have direct access to digitized material emanating from this project, to the collection of course-related historical materials, and to links to other useful and related sites. The expectation is that there will be a dramatic change in the course from one of sterile factual content to one containing dynamic interludes involving people, places, and events. In this manner, the computing course for non-majors will be much more interesting. It will stimulate more students to consider computing as their major, will contribute to students' life-long learning experiences, will encourage students from diverse and minority communities to appreciate computing, and will increase student retention. Students will also gain a better sense of the nature of inquiry, the processes of innovation, the constraining and driving factors involved, and the human dimension.