Sooooooo …
What did we learn?
Top Interests Topics
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Changing the University
University/Industry Partnerships
Public Relations
Research
Changing the University
1. Focus on what will have impact
2. Initiate a survey non-CS courses that use computing.
3. Initiate a survey of requirements for non-CS majors
4. Redefine faculty requirements for pedagogy.
5. Create dual tenure tracks for teaching and research
6. Recognize pedagogical achievements. Use smaller,
more frequent awards.
7. Develop a study by a representative group in industry
of what they need/want in computing student
preparation
University/Industry Partnerships
1. Create a new ranking system for schools.
2. Create legacy with more communication and
sharing about existing programs.
3. Create incentives for partnerships.
Universities should be rewarded, not punished
for working with practitioners.
4. Identify different ways of collaborating
beyond recruiting. For example, team teaching
with academia and industry.
Public Relations
1. Choose who should get the message first.
2. Develop talking point cards, videos, and other
forms of targeted messaging.
3. Create a repository of content.
4. Develop messages that undergraduates would
read and would inform them.
5. Award mini-grants for teachers. These provide
more opportunities for publicity in the press.
6. Encourage partnerships between university
faculty and K-12, since this can get states’
attention.
Research
1. Write a white paper on the top 5 challenges.
2. Identify, develop, and centralize resources.
What’s happened since?
ASEE action items:
• Initiate recognition of pedagogical achievement,
such as best paper, best education resources
More discussion at the next ASEE Annual
Conference where 'business is done'.
– logical place to start in both EE and CompE [because
of the significant software component]
• On the Executive Committee of the ECE Division
agenda for Business meeting in June
• also contacting Software Engineering Constituent
Committee to see if there is joint interest
What has happened, con’t
Sigcse action items:
• Gather data about experiences on dual track
tenure lines (research and teaching).
• Getting the Survey of Non-Major's courses
underway.
NCWIT
• submitted a DARPA proposal to fund a mini-grant
program to support teachers
What’s happened, con’t
CACE (Coalition for Advancing Computing Education) -- (National) Computing
Education Coordinating Council)
• Broad representation (ACM Ed Board , AIS, ASEE,CRA, Brazilian CS, CSAB,
CSTA ,IEEE CS, NCWIT, SIGCSE, SIGITE)
• Created a web presence at Ensemble: A Digital Library for Computing
Education (http://www.computingportal.org/) under the name FOCES:
CACE. All CACE artifacts produced thus far are posted on the site: telecon
meeting minutes, CACE proposals and reports, and summaries of
discussion held online and at meetings.
• Developed a draft vision for the future of CACE (challenges, purpose,
strategies and organizations), which recommend the formation
of Computing Education Coordinating Council.