Adopting threads for computing education: Lessons learned to date from an NSF CPATH project

Ashraf Saad, Andy Wang

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Abstract

The National Science Foundation (NSF) started the CISE Pathways to Revitalized Undergraduate Computing Education (CPATH) program two years ago (2007). The panel provides a forum for our team to present and discuss our progress and lessons learned to date from our collaboration on a CPATH project entitled: "CPATH EAE: Extending Contextualized Computing in Multiple Institutions Using Threads"*. Our project team represents a diverse set of institutions and computing education programs. We have been working over the past two years on adapting and adopting Georgia Tech's Threads™ model for computing education at the partner institutions. This process is currently at a different stage at each of the institutions due to a variety of factors. We give an overview of those factors, of the Thread adaptation and adoption process at each school, of the challenges and opportunities for doing so as well as our next steps. Doing so should lead to a wider dissemination of lessons learned during this formative stage of the project that could be of benefit to other computing programs with similar goals.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSIGITE'09 - Proceedings of the 2009 ACM Special Interest Group for Information Technology Education
Pages203
Number of pages1
DOIs
StatePublished - 2009
Externally publishedYes
Event10th ACM Special Interest Group for Information Technology Education, SIGITE 2009 - Fairfax, VA, United States
Duration: Oct 22 2009Oct 24 2009

Publication series

NameSIGITE'09 - Proceedings of the 2009 ACM Special Interest Group for Information Technology Education

Conference

Conference10th ACM Special Interest Group for Information Technology Education, SIGITE 2009
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityFairfax, VA
Period10/22/0910/24/09

Scopus Subject Areas

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computational Theory and Mathematics
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Software

Keywords

  • Computing education
  • NSF CPATH project

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