NSF Workshop: Designing Tools and Curricula for Undergraduate Courses in Distributed Systems

威廉姆斯学院建议组织一个研讨会，重点是开发和传播分布式系统和计算机网络本科课程的新工具和课程，利用公共可访问的测试平台中的可用资源。鉴于分布式系统的普遍存在，本科计算机教育必须适当地解决它们的设计和实现问题。今天在大学教学分布式系统的一个关键挑战是向学生提供分布在全国和世界各地的计算和网络资源。教育工作者有机会利用学术界和工业界出现的各种可公开访问的测试平台和云平台来填补这一空白。20-30名研讨会参与者将来自不同的机构，包括研究型大学、文理学院和工业界。研讨会的目标是确定一套可以在学院和大学广泛使用的教材，为本科生提供参与系统研究的必要背景和动力。讲习班将产生一份报告，详细说明与会者的调查结果，以及一个汇集相关教育材料的网站。

Williams College proposes to organize a workshop that focuses on developing and disseminating new tools and curricula for undergraduate courses in distributed systems and computer networks that leverage the resources available in publicly-accessible testbeds. Given the ubiquity of distributed systems, it is imperative that undergraduate computing education properly address their design and implementation. A key challenge today in teaching distributed systems at the college-level is providing students access to computing and networking resources distributed across the country and world. Educators have an opportunity to fill this gap using a variety of publicly-accessible testbed and cloud platforms now emerging in academia and industry. The 20-30 workshop attendees will come from a variety of institutions, including research universities, liberal arts colleges, and industry. The goal of the workshop is to identify a set of teaching materials that may be used at a broad cross-section of colleges and universities to provide undergraduates with the necessary background and motivation to become involved in systems research. The workshop will result in a report that details the participants' findings, as well as a website that aggregates the relevant educational material.