Living In the KnowlEdge Society (LIKES) (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Villanova University, Santa Clara University)

PI Details

Fox Edward fox@vt.edu Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University CIS Department
	Beck, Robert robert.beck@villanova.edu Villanova University Computing Sciences
Chung, Wingyan wchung@scu.edu Santa Clara University Operations and Management Information Systems

Description

The Living in the KnowlEdge Society (LIKES) Community Building project, led by four sites (Virginia Tech, Villanova, NC A&T, and U. Texas El Paso), is transforming computing education for the 21st Century. The LIKES community, in collaboration with those from other disciplines, is identifying key computing concepts in these disciplines, then developing and implementing tools and techniques that enable learning of both computing concepts and the concepts of the disciplines.

The Living in the KnowlEdge Society (LIKES) Community Building project, led by four sites (Virginia Tech, Villanova, NC A&T, and U. Texas El Paso), is transforming computing education for the 21st Century. The LIKES community, in collaboration with those from other disciplines, is identifying key computing concepts in these disciplines, then developing and implementing tools and techniques that enable learning of both computing concepts and the concepts of the disciplines.

Success Story


Each of the original LIKES sites has added courses or other initiatives to extend computational thinking on campuses, in suitable ways, and through 6 workshops has been collaborating around the emerging plan to start developing curricular guidelines and educational modules to connect computing with other disciplines, so students learn computing in context in a wide variety of fields

Future Plan

Preparing curricular guidelines for computing with other disciplines, preparing students for living in the knowledge society