CPATH-CDEF: Resparking Innovation in Computing Education

该CPATH CISE杰出教育研究员（CDEF）奖授予Peter Denning博士，以表彰他作为一位成就卓著、富有创造力和创新精神的领导者，作为发言人和推动本科计算机教育变革的力量，为国家服务。CDEF奖项颁发给在计算机行业取得杰出成就的个人，他们致力于改变本科计算机教育，并在如何做到这一点上有创新的想法。在他的CPATH项目中，Denning博士阐述了振兴全国本科计算机教育的广阔愿景，以及围绕这些振兴努力建立社区的实施计划。他的项目愿景是通过刺激更多有才能的、创新的计算机人才的供应来支持美国的竞争力。其目标是为计算机教育设计一种新的运作模式，并在计算机协会教育委员会的支持下，让计算机部门参与该模式的实验。新模式将忠于基本的计算原理，强调单个教师、学生和部门的创新，并支持教师作为导师和教练的角色。本项目社区建设方面的一个关键组成部分是，该项目将设计支持网络和结构，这些网络和结构可以由ACM管理，以维持研讨会的想法。此外，这些研讨会将支持该领域至少24名创新的初级领导者的领导力发展。在这方面，PI将组织三次受邀讲习班和一份全面的最后报告。第一个，一个伟大的原则研讨会，将寻求关于计算的基本原则的介绍，专家们写原则故事的承诺，以及建立一个ACM伟大原则图书馆，最初由受委托的专家编写的材料填充。第二个研讨会，“激励创新课程研讨会”，将表彰创新者并宣传他们的创新，启动一个创新者门户网站，其中包含创新描述和指导方针，供其他部门模仿，启动一个创新实践研讨会，帮助教师学习基础创新和指导实践，并为创新者建立一个支持网络。第三个研讨会探讨了另一种操作模式。基于项目的学习研讨会将探讨基于项目的课程的复杂性，并帮助那些想在自己的部门采用基于项目的学习的人。讲习班结束后，PI将把讲习班的成果和建议纳入《关于计算机课程新运作模式的报告》，并与ACM教育委员会合作实施所建议的支助结构。这个项目将帮助计算机系重新树立创新的地位，吸引学生。该原则框架将提高计算机作为一个基础良好的科学和工程领域的声誉。最终，这个项目的成果将有助于提高国家在计算机领域的竞争力，吸引一些最聪明和最优秀的学生从事计算机职业。CPATH CDEF项目的成果可能会对全国的教育机构产生深远而关键的影响。这些成果解决了该领域目前面临的许多问题，并提出了一个合理的解决方案。

This CPATH CISE Distinguished Education Fellow (CDEF) award to Dr. Peter Denning recognizes his role as an accomplished, creative, and innovative leader who serves the nation as a spokesperson and force for change in undergraduate computing education. CDEF awards are made to individuals who have achieved distinction in the computing profession, who are committed to transforming undergraduate computing education, and who have innovative ideas on how to do so. In his CPATH project, Dr. Denning articulates both a broad vision for revitalizing undergraduate computing education in the nation and an implementation plan for building community around those revitalization efforts. His project vision is to support U.S. competitiveness by stimulating a greater supply of talented, innovative people in computing. The objectives are to design a new operating model for computing education and, with support from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Education Board, involve computing departments in experiments with the model. The new model will be true to fundamental computing principles, emphasize innovation by individual faculty, students, and departments, and support faculty in their roles as mentors and coaches. A key component of the community building aspect of this project is that this project will design support networks and structures that can be administered by ACM to sustain the ideas from workshops. And, the workshops will support the leadership development of at least two dozen innovative junior leaders of the field. In this context, the PI will organize three invited workshops and a comprehensive final report. The first, a Great Principles Workshop, will seek agreement on a presentation of fundamental principles of computing, commitments from experts to write principle stories, and establishment of an ACM Great Principles Library populated initially with materials written by the commissioned experts. The second workshop, a Stimulating Innovation in Curriculum Workshop, will recognize innovators and publicize their innovations, initiate an Innovators Portal containing innovation descriptions and guidelines for other departments to imitate, initiate an Innovation Practice Workshop to help faculty learn foundational innovation and coaching practices, and develop a support network for innovators. The third workshop involves an exploration of an alternative operating model. A Project-Based Learning Workshop will explore the intricacies of a project-based curriculum and help those who want to adopt project-based learning in their own departments. After the workshops the PI will integrate workshop findings and recommendations into A Report on a New Operating Model for Computing Curricula and work with the ACM Education Board to implement the recommended support structures. This project will help computing departments reestablish themselves as places of innovation and attract students. The principles framework will enhance the reputation of computing as a well-grounded science and engineering field. Ultimately, the outcomes of this project should contribute to enhancing national competitiveness in computing by attracting some of the brightest and best students to computing careers. The outcomes of this CPATH CDEF project are likely to have far-reaching and critical impacts on educational institutions in the nation. These outcomes address many of the current problems faced by the field and propose a sound solution.