Collaborative Research: Lighthouse CC: Preparing Future Undergraduate Computer Science Faculty

这个项目（灯塔CC）的重点是提供社区大学计算教师的动机和知识，以吸引和留住更多的学生，并提高计算机科学专业的多样性。它明确解决了计算机专业的妇女和少数民族学生人数严重和持续不足的问题。 它建立在一系列早期项目（灯塔，挂毯）的基础上，这些项目一直致力于培训高中教育工作者，以增加计算的多样性，这是一项对未来美国经济至关重要的学科技能。灯塔CC项目的第一阶段是开发和测试新的社区大学教师扩大参与内容。 随后，它将建立和测试一个新的开放式在线专业发展课程，该课程是根据约翰·凯勒的ARCS动机设计理论设计的（如“学习和绩效的动机设计：ARCS模型方法”，纽约：施普林格，2010年所解释的）。 ARCS有四个设计原则：注意力，相关性，信心和满意度。开放的在线学习环境将为教育研究提供一个平台，研究注册教师的学习，行为和多样性成果。这方面的灯塔CC将加深理解学习者的动机和学习环境之间的关系。它将为研究人员、从业人员和终身学习者提供研究成果和工具、数据和内容形式的重要持久基础设施。最终目标是使本课程成为一个开放和在线的持续专业发展课程。其目的是使这成为一个专业发展课程，使入学人数上升到“大规模”的水平，从而使MOOC（大规模，开放，在线课程）的标签合法化。为了最大限度地发挥影响力，灯塔CC将通过使用可公开访问的数字资源和在线社交网络来广泛传播和促进其内容的采用，这两者都将在国家妇女信息技术中心（NCWIT）和其他合作团体的支持下得到放大。

This project (Lighthouse CC) is focused on providing community college computing faculty with the motivation and knowledge to attract and retain more students, and improve the diversity of computer science majors. It explicitly addresses the large and persistent under-representation of women and minority students majoring in computing. It is building on a set of earlier projects (Lighthouse, Tapestry) that have been engaged in training educators at the high school level to increase diversity in computing, a discipline skill that is critical for the future US economy. The first stage of the Lighthouse CC project is developing and testing new broadening participation content for community college instructors. Subsequently, it will build and test a new open online professional development course designed in accordance with John Keller's ARCS Theory of Motivational Design (as explained in "Motivational Design for Learning and Performance: The ARCS model approach," New York: Springer, 2010). ARCS has four design principles: attention, relevance, confidence, and satisfaction. The open online learning environment will provide a platform for educational research into the learning, behavioral, and diversity outcomes of enrolled instructors. This aspect of Lighthouse CC will deepen understanding of the relationship between learner motivation and learning environment. It will provide both research findings and a significant lasting infrastructure in the form of tools, data and content for researchers, practitioners and lifelong learners. The final goal is for this course to become an ongoing professional development course that is both open and online. The intention is make this a go-to professional development course so that the enrollment rises to the level of "massive," thus legitimizing the label MOOC (Massive, Open, Online Course). To maximize impact, Lighthouse CC will widely disseminate and promote adoption of its content by using openly accessible digital resources and an online social network, both of which will be amplified with support from the National Center for Women & IT (NCWIT) and other collaborating groups.