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Building a faculty community
to support curriculum development through Information
Technology & Asynchronous Learning
Kris Stewart
San Diego State University
NPACI Ed Center on CSE
stewart@sdsu.edu
www.edcenter.sdsu.edu
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The mission of EOT-PACI is to develop
human resources through the innovative
use of emerging information
technologies in order to understand and
solve problems in education, science,
business, government, and society.
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Education
Goal: Support a national level systemic
impact on CS&E education
www.edcenter.sdsu.edu
(k-12, undergrad, grad/training,
informal science)
mvhs1.mbhs.edu
www.shodor.org
biology.ncsa.uiuc.edu
whyfiles.news.wisc.edu
www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/edu/chemviz
www.krellinst.org
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Learning Technologies
Goal: Develop, apply, and assess computational tools
that enhance learning
trurl.npac.syr.edu/tango
Java-based Web collaboratory for distributed learning
Environmental hydrology workbench,
watershed mapping and modeling tools
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Cyberia/RiverWeb
Course broadcast over the Web
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/edu/courses/spring98/
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Access & Inclusion
Goal: Increase participation and success of women, minorities
and people with disabilities in CS&E and in PACI
trace.wisc.edu
Universal design and disability access
CDC
GirlTECH
www.crpc.rice.edu/CRPC
Spend a Summer with a Scientist
Coalition to Diversify Computing
www.npaci.edu/Outreach/CDC
www.cra.org/Activities/craw
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Education Center on Computational
Science & Engineering
Mission:
Foster the incorporation of high performance research
tools for scientific investigation into the undergraduate
curriculum to better prepare learners for post-Baccalaureate
activities where:
• Collaborative, interdisciplinary teams,
• Sophisticated computer tools and
• Effective communication among the team members and
with others
are used in research and problem solving.
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NPACI AHM Feb00
Undergrad Panel Friday 8:30-10am
Excellent Opportunity for the NPACI Thrust Areas to
Interact with EOT - Join the discussion
Funding Opportunities from PT3 - Let’s work together to
show the impact that NPACI can have on education
through modeling and visualization, SITE2000 this week
US Dept Education Preparing Tomorrow’s Teachers to
use Technology http://www.ed.gov/teachtech
Contribute demonstrations that have been incorporated into
a class lesson, module, even full curriculum
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Ed Center as Campus Change Agent
• Hosting Biology Workbench workshop at SDSU
July 28-30 to support Computational Biology
• Met with Thrust Area groups Wednesday lunch
share modules that you develop from your
research that can be used as examples of “What
NPACI does?” in the undergraduate curriculum
• Your own teaching - or your RA - or your University peers
• Presentations to general audiences on your research
activities
• Assessment - client then self-practitioner
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EC/CSE Faculty Fellows
Challenges and strategies
• building community of HPC users
• undergraduate faculty and students
• HSI hispanic-serving institution, exploration of
faculty attitudes to computing in the classroom
Powerpoint slides vs. Realtime Simulation
• NPACI naturally supports visualization and
modeling - entry point for the curriculum
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Faculty Fellows during 1998-2000
• Faculty Fellows representing four departments from four
colleges: Geological Sciences, Geography, Computer
Engineering, Business Information Systems
• Bi-weekly meetings at the Ed Center
• Faculty Fellows as “ambassadors” of computational
science
• Partnership with LEAD for evaluation during 1998-99
• Follow-on Activities (Susan Millar, LEAD)
• CATS (Classroom Assessment Techniques)
• FLAG (Field-tested Learning Assessment Guide)
• SALG (Student Assessment of Learning Gains)
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Computational Science Curricula
Evaluation and Assessment
•User-Friendly Handbook for Project Evaluation:
Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology
Education, NSF 93-152
www.ehr.nsf.gov/EHR/RED/EVAL/handbook/handbook.htm
•Learning through Evaluation, Adaptation and
Dissemination, U. Wisconsin NPACI partner
Talk with Julie Foertsch and Baine Alexander they are attending the AHM 2000
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Moving Computational Science into the
Undergraduate Curriculum - panel discussion
Friday 8:30am - 1
Professor Rubin Landau
Developing a Research-rich Undergraduate Computational X Curriculum
NPACI Undergraduate Team
Oregon State University
Professor J.P. Bayard
The Institute on Learning Technology, a Resource for Reform-ready Instructors
Teaching in the Areas of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
(STEM)
Bridging the Chasm between Educational Research and STEM Instruction
NPACI Fellow to the U Wisconsin ILT/NISE, CSU Sacramento
ASK ABOUT ABET2000 Accreditation
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Moving Computational Science into the
Undergraduate Curriculum - panel discussion
Friday 8:30am - 2
Professor Kris Stewart
Steering Undergraduate Curriculum Development: Before & After Assessment
Director, NPACI Education Center on Computational Science & Engineering
San Diego State University
Professor Roscoe Giles
The Scales of Interaction of Undergraduate Faculty with Alliance EOT Activities
EOT-PACI Co-leader
University of Boston
Professor Greg Moses
Pathways from On-campus to Distance Learning of Computational Science
NPACI-EOT Team Leader
University of Wisconsin, Madison
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Evaluation and Assessment of
Classroom Practice
Student Surveys - Need a compatible tool for
instructor to examine results with
Sociology WorkBench (SWB) developed by team
of undergraduate computer science majors
employed by the EC/CSE
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SWB Convenient Tool to Learn from
Student Survey Data
Online tool for “standard public data sets” or your
own data set http://edcenter.sdsu.edu
Small Sample, therefore only useful as feedback
for the instructor
Can be used with “forms” interface directly into
SWB format, as in June ‘99 CSU Faculty
Workshop
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Channels for Influencing Pre-Service
Teacher Preparation
• Use of advanced computing modules in general ed
courses (e.g. Geol 303 “Natural Hazards”)
• Cooperation with College of Education faculty and
students, esp. in Education Technology: focus on
experimentation with new technologies in classroom
setting
• Computational Science Olympics: supporting the
“bottom-up” development of computational science
curricula
• Providing on-line assessment technologies:
• Sociology Workbench: http://edcenter.sdsu.edu
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SWB Convenient Tool to Learn from
Student Survey Data
Online tool for “standard public data sets” or your
own data set http://edcenter.sdsu.edu
Small Sample, therefore only useful as feedback
for the instructor
Can be used with “forms” interface directly into
SWB format, as in June ‘99 CSU Faculty
Workshop
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SWB as Analysis Tool
View Student Comments (text)
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SWB as Analysis Tool
Isolate on Specific Survey Response
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SWB as Analysis Tool
Explain the Response on Learning with “doing more”
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SWB as Analysis Tool
Explain learning with “active participation”
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NPACI Sources of Information
NPACI Partnership Report
enVision quarterly science
magazine, especially
June99
“The Importance of Science Literacy
in a Computing World”, Sid Karin
www.npaci.edu/envision/v15.2/director.html
“Online” biweekly
electronic publication,
www.npaci.edu/online/
www.npaci.edu
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Advancing the Computational Infrastructure
Resources -- Today’s Digital Laboratory
• High-performance computing available today to the
academic community
Develop and Deploy
• Technology and application collaborations to push the
capabilities of tomorrow’s digital laboratory
Use and Apply
• Computational scientists applying enhanced
capabilities to achieve new scientific results
Disseminate and Incorporate
• Incorporating technologies into the digital laboratory
and disseminating them for use in new communities
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