Workshop 1: Coming Together: Assessing the Needs, Benefits, and Challenges of i18n of Computer Science Education
May 16 - 18, 2008 - Portland, Oregon
Location:
University Place Hotel and Conference Center
310 SW Lincoln St., Portland, OR 97201
(Details from past conference)
Report on the First CPATH i18n Workshop
Workshop Summary
The May workshop was attended by 53 partners representing academic and industry institutions from the U.S., Canada, China, Japan, Korea, the Phillippines, and Vietnam. For a list of attendees see the attendee facebook or attendee list. The goal of this workshop was to begin to build our Pacific Rim community through a face-to-face meeting; to understand the perspectives of various regional partners; and to discuss concrete steps towards internationalization of computer science education.
Preliminary Findings of the May Workshop
Issues of high interest:- the development of global distributed software engineering projects for undergraduates involving student teams that are diverse in cultural background and that work in different timezones
- desire for increased inter-cultural communication and understanding
- design of a model i18n curriculum (highly desirable but challenging)
- curriculum development differences among the partner institutions and countries
- need for skills beyond cs such as (English) language, communication skills, leadership, and innovative thinking
- general desire to find arenas for collaboration, faculty and student exchanges
Workshop Highlights
Welcome: Project Overview and Introductions
Reception/dinner: Keynote speaker Professor Lionel Ni, Chair, Hong Kong University of Science and TechnologySession 1: i18n Skills and Challenges -- understanding the benefits and challenges from Western and Asian perspectives as well as university and industry perspectives Panel Discussion: The global computer science graduate in the year 2020. See
- Paul McKenney, IBM, USA
- Maosong Sun, Tsinghua University, China
- Martha Crosby, University of Hawaii, USA
- Harold Javid, Microsoft, USA
- Sue Moon, KAIST, Korea
- Andrzej Proskurowski, University of Oregon, USA
- Yu-chee Tseng, Jiao Tong University, Taiwan
Small Group discussions focused on identifying skills and challenges in the contexts of (a) global product design, (b) global work environments, (c) teaching abroad, (d) teaching to an international audience at home, (e) research on global scientific problems, and (f) conducting scientific research with international peers.
Box lunch with keynote speaker Gurdeep Singh Pall, Corporate Vice President, Unified Communications Group, Microsoft.
Session 2: International Experiences and Institutional Collaborations Panel Discussion: Current international activities
- Richard Anderson, University of Washington, USA: distance education
- Ted Kirkpatrick, Simon Fraser: dual degree program
- Zhong Chen, Peking University China: Wuxi International Campus
- Takeshi Tokuyama, Tohoku University: ASIST Program
- Tim Sheard, Portland State University: Summer School
- Kent Foster, Microsoft, USA: internships and service projects
Small group discussions focused on ideas for developing i18n opportunities in the areas
- industrial internships
- student exchanges
- faculty exchanges
- intensive summer school programs
- international volunteer service
- department-to-department partnerships
- dual degree programs
Session 3: Curriculum Innovation Panel: Curriculum across the Pacific Rim
- Kazuo Iwama, Kyoto University, Japan
- Ginnie Lo, University of Oregon, USA
- Bin Xu, Tsinghua University, China
- Mercedes Rodrigo, Ateneo de Manila University, Phillippines
- Fritz Fuehr, Willamette University, USA
- Mike Zastre, University of Victoria, Canada
Small group discussions focused on areas for i18n curriculum development and innovation:
- Recommendations to IEEE/ACM 2000
- I18n model curriculum
- Global software engineering projects
- Global software engineering programming contest
- Cross-cultural communication course module
- Cultural HCI course module
- International computer ethics module
Contacts
Please contact René Remillard at Portland State University or Bing Li at the University of Oregon, with any questions or concerns.
[email protected] Phone +1 503.725.4211 Fax +1 503.725.3211
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