Resparking Innovation in Computing Education (Naval Postgraduate School)
PI Details
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Denning Peter Naval Postgraduate School Computer Science / Innovation |
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Description:
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. 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.
Discipline:
Computing in/and sciences, computing in/and engineering, computing in/and humanities, computing in/and social science
Audience:
CS undergrads, K-12 teachers, all computing professionals
Pedagogic Approch:
We advocate the Great Principles of Computing framework for the field. http://greatprinciples.org
Challenges:
Since we are aiming for cultural change within the field, support for follow up activities after a brainstorming meeting like Rebooting is essential. The 19 action groups formed at the Rebooting summit had limited support from us. I created a team of Rebooting alumni and blended their projects into one, "Field Guide to the Science of Computing", applied to CPATH-2, and received an award.
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| Resparking Innovation in Computing Education.doc | 3.85 MB |