Next Generation Laboratories in Computer Science Education

计算机科学(31)封闭式实验室作为提高学生成绩的一种手段，在计算机科学教育界已经变得很普遍。然而，自最初推动封闭实验室以来，许多部门的情况发生了变化：基于网络的技术的快速进步和学生对联网个人计算机的拥有量增加，使得使用封闭实验室进行练习或辅导活动变得更加不明智，许多机构面临招生人数增加、空间短缺、或减少实验室助理的预算，这些部门需要确保尽可能明智地使用课程的资源昂贵的封闭实验室组件。在这个项目中，我们重新检查封闭实验室模式的优点，并评估在封闭实验室外学习的方法和技术，以便为学生提供更好的实践体验，并降低系在计算机课程中开发和交付封闭实验室组件的成本。我们正在：(1)分析一门课程的封闭实验室组件的需求，以及在课程每周实验室课程期间进行的一系列学生活动的需求；(2)确定哪些以实践为导向的学生活动在封闭的实验室环境中最适合，哪些可以在封闭的实验室会议之外有效地处理；(3)确定并记录一套能够支持封闭式实验室的有效学习活动的技术和工具的最佳实践，以及更好地转移到开放实验室的活动；以及(4)使用这套最佳实践来定义如何规划和实施实验室组成部分的开发指南。

Computer Science (31)Closed laboratories have become common in the computer science educational community as a means of enhancing student achievement. However, circumstances for many departments have changed since the original push to closed laboratories: rapid advances in web-based technologies and increasing ownership of networked personal computers by students makes it even less sensible to use closed laboratories to deliver exercises or tutorial activities and many institutions are facing increasing enrollments, shortage of space, or reduced budgets for laboratory assistants that require departments to ensure that resource expensive closed laboratory components for courses are used as wisely as possible.In this project we are re-examining the strengths of the closed laboratory model and assessing methods and technology for learning outside a closed laboratory in order to deliver better practicum experiences for students and to reduce a department's costs for developing and delivering closed-laboratory components in a computing curriculum.We are:(1) analyzing the needs for a closed-laboratory component for a course and also for the set of student activities carried out during a course's weekly laboratory sessions;(2) determining what practicum-oriented student activities are best served in a closed laboratory environment and which can effectively be handled outside a closed laboratory session;(3) identifying and documenting a set of best-practices of techniques and tools that can support effective learning activities for closed laboratories, and also for activities that are better moved to an open laboratory situation;and(4) using this set of best-practices to define a development guide for how to plan and implement laboratory components.