Large Scale Community Building

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Large Scale Community Building

• CPATH Southeast Breakout Group 5

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Members

• Georgios Anagnostopoulos
• Jon Preston
• Maria Larrondo Petrie
• Vladan Jovanovic
• Harold Pardue
• Tucker Balch
• Ralf Eder

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Change in Community of Computing Education
Stakeholders

• Students are the given stakeholders
• Shift from government to industry
• Ultimately everyone becomes a stakeholder given
  the shift to ubiquitous computing
• Expanding players
• Competitions (Robotics, Mindstorms, etc.)
• Expository events (summer programs for K12)
• Computing in media (TV, movies, etc.) need more
  positive PR
• Showcase computing topics within popularized
  context (YouTube, Mashups, MMORPGs, 2nd Life,
  etc.)
• National policy/authority for CS
  Ed/Research/Funding
• National Industrial Advisory Board
• National vision, forums, alliances, internships

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Needs to Revitalize Computing Education in Next
10 Years

• Communities
• Communities focusing on pedagogy
• Vertical slice of entire stakeholder hierarchy
  (students, parents, educators, industry,
  government reps)
• Activities
• Competitions (modeling, robotics, programming,
  design)
• Open access to pool of educational material (like
  OCW, MDSL)

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Activities CPATH Can Fund to Promote Community
Development/Growth

• Interdisciplinary, international, exchange
  programs
• Maximize diversity and exposure
• Focus on socially or discipline-critical topics
• Small grants to fund prototype ideas (feasibility
  studies)
• Open-source model of computing curriculum
• Share content/expertise/students among
  universities
• Month-long (2 week?) workshop
• Establish model curricula best practices