Working Group on a Model i18n Curriculum
Facilitator: Ginnie Lo, University of Oregon
Goal: to develop one or more curricular models that provide i18n education for computer science undergraduates, and to analyze their outcomes and benefits, costs and resource needs, and overall feasibility. Our work will be used to develop recommendations to the ACM/IEEE curriculum committees, the National Science Foundation, and the general computer science education community.
Details:
We will address the following issues:
- Question #1: what course content and experiential activities should be included in a model i18n computer science education?
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A model i18n computer science curriculum would likely include
- Course content in the areas of cultural HCI, international computer ethics, global software engineering, cross-cultural communication, language competency, leadership skills.
- Experiential components such as study abroad, international internships, international service, student/faculty exchanges.
- Capstone project such as a global distributed software engineering project across cultural and timezone differences (e.g. with students from two CPATH partner departments).
Question #2: what are the best model(s) for delivery of an i18n computer science curriculum?
Possibilities include dual degree programs, i18n track within standard computer science degree program, i18n interdisciplinary major with fields such as business or international studies. Clearly, other implementations are possible.
Question 3: how can we evaluate the effectiveness and feasibility of various i18n models?
What kinds of analysis, metrics, scoring system can we use or devise to compare and contrast the various i18n models?
Pre-Beijing Workshop Assignment:
- Read about programs that offer i18n educational opportunities:
- Transnational Higher Education: Issues Effecting Joint Degree Programs Among U.S. and Chinese Schools by Wenying “Nan” Sun and Robert J. Boncella in Issues in Information Systems, Vol. VIII, No. 1, 2007. www.iacis.org/iis/2007_iis/PDFs/Sun_Boncella.pdf
- Dual Degree: Simon Fraser University
(Canada) and Zhejiang University
(China)
http://www.cs.sfu.ca/undergrad/prospective/ddp/ - Dual Degree: Cal State San Bernadino
(USA) with Inchon University
(Korea)
http://nsci.csusb.edu/CSCI_Incheon2.htm - Georgia Tech College of Computing
International Study and Dual Degree
M.S.
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/education/study-abroad(website) - MIT program on International Science
and
Technology
http://web.mit.edu/misti/mit-china/ (MIT-China website)
and http://web.mit.edu/misti/mit-japan/(MIT-Japan website)
- Find two more examples to add to our resource list especially models distinct from the above. You can choose examples outside the field of computer science.
- Write down ideas for a scoring system that we can use to analyze these models for effectiveness and feasibility.
At the Beijing Workshop
- We will choose models to refine for a white paper on model i18n curriculum.
- We will merge our individually developed scoring systems and develop an analysis rubric, test it out on existing models and further refine.
- We will decide if there is a target publication we would like to develop a paper for submission.
- We will decide if there is a CPATH proposal we can submit for Spring 2009.