Online Curricula for Monitored, Closed-lab First-year CS Courses

计算机科学（31）本项目旨在设计、评估和推广一种新的计算机科学入门课程教学方法。它使用基于网络的学习环境，利用最新的学习研究成果，并结合成功的策略，在第一年的编程和数据结构课程中教授不同的学生。它包括一系列多样化的活动、协作和小组工作、帮助学生跟上课程作业并保持持续参与的支持机制、帮助所有学生（特别是包括女性在内的代表性不足的群体）取得更大成功的活动、嵌入学生信息以使教师更好地了解学生的概念和进步、以及帮助教师分配时间的学习环境。该项目包括为这种方法设计和测试教师研讨会，并使用内部、外部和专家评审过程评估学生的学习和教师的工作量。这一做法正在推广到各种文化群体和教育背景，这对确保技术劳动力的多样化很重要。在伯克利被证明成功的技术正被用于社区学院、少数族裔服务机构和文理学院的学生。该项目正在与来自不同机构的教师合作，根据他们部门的课程和期望定制教学。教师可以获得的详细信息有助于他们更及时、更有效地指导学生。这种教学方法可以帮助教师有效地利用他们的时间，并且不需要更多的教学时间。项目评估包括主要计算机科学讲师的参与，以审查和批评所开发的材料。评估基准在制定创新方法之前取得进展，并将新一代学生与基准组进行比较。它包括使用学习环境随机向学生群体提供引人注目的替代方案的比较研究，并跟踪随机选择的不同学生群体在几年期间的轨迹。总的来说，该项目正在开发一套可以广泛使用的连贯的、经过测试的实践。

Computer Science (31)This project is designing, evaluating, and disseminating a new approach for teaching introductory computer science courses. It uses a web-based learning environment to take advantage of recent research on learning and incorporate successful strategies for teaching diverse students in first year programming and data structures courses. It includes a diverse set of activities, collaboration and group work, support mechanisms to help students keep up with course assignments and sustain consistent participation, activities to help all students, especially underrepresented groups including women, have more success, embedded student information so instructors have better knowledge of student conceptions and progress, and a learning environment to help instructors allocate time where it can be of best use. The project includes designing and testing faculty workshops for this approach and evaluating student learning and instructor workload using internal, external, and expert review processes.This approach is being extended to the full range of cultural groups and educational contexts important for ensuring a diverse workforce in technology. Techniques proven successful at Berkeley are being tailored to students in community colleges, minority-serving institutions, and liberal arts colleges. The project is collaborating with instructors from diverse institutions to customize the instruction to the curriculum and expectations in their departments. The detailed information available to instructors helps them guide students in a more timely and effective way. This pedagogical approach helps instructors use their time effectively and does not demand more time for teaching.The project evaluation includes the participation of leading computer science instructors to review and critique the materials that are developed. The evaluation benchmarks progress prior to instituting innovative approaches and compare the new cohort of students to the benchmark group. It includes comparison studies using the learning environment to randomly deliver compelling alternatives to groups of students and follows the trajectories of a randomly selected and diverse group of students over a several year period. Overall, the project is developing a coherent, tested set of practices that can be used widely.