Advancing Computing Education: Formation of a Computing Education Coordinating Council

这个CEISE特别项目提供资金，成立一个名为计算教育协调理事会(CECC)的实体。CECC的设想是包容和广泛的，最终包括所有对计算教育感兴趣的组织。理事会的起点将很简单，只有一个由著名计算机教育组织组成的小核心，负责为CECC的长期可持续性奠定基础。一旦达到更高的成熟度和接受度，CECC将扩大为一个更大、更强大的小组。该项目是2009年6月由美国国家科学基金会资助的未来计算教育峰会的直接成果。CECC项目组计划首先为CECC启动制定一份战略计划草案，其中包括关于CECC组建的想法和建议。然后，该团队打算让核心计算教育组织的领导层参与进来，以巩固CECC的目标和活动，制定两三年的战略计划，并确保他们对CECC计划的承诺。智力优势：计算领域有些自相矛盾。几乎每个人都认识到它在日常生活中的重要性；计算是许多其他科学的基础；计算产品和服务的预算继续扩大；目前对有能力的计算专业人员的需求很高，这种需求一直延伸到未来。然而，在过去的十年里，教育计算专业的注册人数几乎没有增长；计算学生、教育工作者和专业人员的人口缺乏多样性；大学前计算教育在资金、教师准备和课程要求方面存在严重弱点；各种计算专业的性质、内容和实践没有被公众很好地理解。从事计算机工作的女性和少数族裔的缺乏令人担忧，这将对我们的创新能力产生长期影响。这种思想多样性的缺乏终于被政府和行业承认为达到了危机水平。不同的计算组织已经独立地工作来解决这些问题；然而，单独工作或以小组形式工作并不能产生与更实质性和更普遍的方法相同的积极效果。CECC的目的是就如何应对计算机教育面临的重大挑战提出一个统一的观点。更广泛的影响：CECC将对计算机教育的状况产生广泛而重大的影响。理事会将致力于支持和促进下列活动：通过发展教学、课程、实践和技术，持续开展计算机教育方面的研究和奖学金，以确保有效性、相关性和时效性；在教师准备和课程要求方面改进大学前计算机教育；增加计算机专业学生、教育工作者和专业人员的多样性；增加攻读计算机不同领域学位的学生人数，包括计算机教育；提高公众对不同计算专业的性质、内容和实践的理解；以及加强对计算与其他学科之间关系的理解。

This CISE Special Project provides funds to form an entity called the Computing Education Coordinating Council (CECC). The CECC is envisioned to be inclusive and wide ranging ultimately including all organizations with an interest in computing education. The starting point of the Council will be simple, with a small core of prominent computing education organizations, which will be responsible for laying the foundational for long-term sustainability of the CECC. Once it has achieved a higher level of maturity and acceptance, the CECC will be expanded into a larger and more robust group. This project was developed as a direct result of the NSF-funded Future of Computing Education Summit that took place in June 2009. The CECC project team plans to first develop a draft strategic plan for CECC start up that includes ideas and recommendations concerning CECC formation. Then the team intends to engage the leadership of the core computing education organizations in order to solidify CECC goals and activities, establish a two-three year strategic plan, and to secure their commitment to the CECC plan. Intellectual Merit: The field of computing is somewhat paradoxical. Almost everyone recognizes its vital importance in their daily lives; computing is foundational for many other sciences; budgets for computing products and services continue to expand; and there is currently a high demand for competent computing professionals that extends well into the future. Yet, in the last decade there has been little or no growth in the enrollment in educational computing programs; the populations of computing students, educators, and professionals lack diversity; pre-university computing education has critical weaknesses in funding, teacher preparation and curriculum requirements; and the nature, content, and practices of the various computing professions are not well understood by the public. The alarming lack of women and minorities engaged in computing will have long-term impact on our ability to innovate. This lack of diversity of thought is finally being recognized as reaching crisis level by government and industry. Various computing organizations have worked independently to address these problems; however, working singly or in small groups does not have the same positive effect as a more substantial and universal approach. The purpose of the CECC is to present a unified view of how to address the significant challenges faced by computing education. Broader Impact: The CECC will have a wide ranging and significant influence on the state of computing education. The Council will engage in endeavors that support and promote the following: ongoing research and scholarship in computing education to ensure effectiveness, relevance and currency through developments in pedagogy, curriculum, practice, and technology; improvement in pre-university computing education in the areas of teacher preparation and curriculum requirements; increased diversity in the populations of computing students, educators, and professionals; increased numbers of students pursuing degrees in various fields of computing, including computing education; improvement in the public understanding of the nature, content, and practices of various computing professions; and enhanced understanding about the relationship between computing and other disciplines.