Kris Stewart San Diego State University NPACI Ed Center on CSE stewart@sdsu

NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE

NPACI All Hands Meeting – Feb 10 2000

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Building a faculty community to support curriculum development through Information

Technology & Asynchronous Learning

Kris StewartSan Diego State UniversityNPACI Ed Center on CSE

[email protected]



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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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EducationGoal: Support a national level systemic impact on CS&E education(k-12, undergrad, grad/training, informal science)

www.edcenter.sdsu.edu

www.shodor.orgmvhs1.mbhs.edu

www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/edu/chemviz

biology.ncsa.uiuc.edu

www.krellinst.org

whyfiles.news.wisc.edu



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Learning TechnologiesGoal: Develop, apply, and assess computational tools that enhance learning

trurl.npac.syr.edu/tango

Java-based Web collaboratory for distributed learning

http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Cyberia/RiverWeb

Environmental hydrology workbench, watershed mapping and modeling tools

http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/edu/courses/spring98/Course broadcast over the Web



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Access & InclusionGoal: Increase participation and success of women, minorities and people with disabilities in CS&E and in PACI

Universal design and disability accesstrace.wisc.edu

CDC Coalition to Diversify Computingwww.npaci.edu/Outreach/CDC

www.cra.org/Activities/craw

GirlTECHwww.crpc.rice.edu/CRPC

Spend a Summer with a Scientist

www.aihec.org



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Education Center on Computational Science & Engineering

Mission:

Foster the incorporation of high performance research tools for scientific investigation into the undergraduatecurriculum 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 Feb00Undergrad 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 classroomPowerpoint 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 - 1Professor Rubin LandauDeveloping a Research-rich Undergraduate Computational X CurriculumNPACI Undergraduate TeamOregon State University

Professor J.P. BayardThe Institute on Learning Technology, a Resource for Reform-ready InstructorsTeaching in the Areas of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics

(STEM)Bridging the Chasm between Educational Research and STEM InstructionNPACI 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 - 2Professor Kris StewartSteering Undergraduate Curriculum Development: Before & After Assessment Director, NPACI Education Center on Computational Science & EngineeringSan Diego State University

Professor Roscoe GilesThe Scales of Interaction of Undergraduate Faculty with Alliance EOT ActivitiesEOT-PACI Co-leaderUniversity of Boston

Professor Greg MosesPathways from On-campus to Distance Learning of Computational ScienceNPACI-EOT Team LeaderUniversity 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 ToolView Student Comments (text)



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SWB as Analysis ToolIsolate on Specific Survey Response



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SWB as Analysis ToolExplain the Response on Learning with “doing more”



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SWB as Analysis ToolExplain learning with “active participation”



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NPACI Sources of Information

NPACI Partnership ReportenVision 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

NPACI Sources of Information



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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

Documents

Kris Stewart San Diego State University NPACI Ed Center on CSE stewart@sdsu