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

1. Building a faculty community to support curriculum development through Information Technology & Asynchronous Learning Kris Stewart San Diego State University NPACI Ed Center on CSE stewart@sdsu.edu www.edcenter.sdsu.edu

2. 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.

3. Education www.edcenter.sdsu.edu mvhs1.mbhs.edu www.shodor.org biology.ncsa.uiuc.edu www.krellinst.org www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/edu/chemviz whyfiles.news.wisc.edu Goal: Support a national level systemic impact on CS&E education (k-12, undergrad, grad/training, informal science)

4. Learning Technologies trurl.npac.syr.edu/tango Java-based Web collaboratory for distributed learning Environmental hydrology workbench, watershed mapping and modeling tools http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Cyberia/RiverWeb Course broadcast over the Web http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/edu/courses/spring98/ Goal: Develop, apply, and assess computational tools that enhance learning

5. Access & Inclusion GirlTECH trace.wisc.edu Universal design and disability access www.crpc.rice.edu/CRPC CDC Spend a Summer with a Scientist Coalition to Diversify Computing www.npaci.edu/Outreach/CDC www.aihec.org www.cra.org/Activities/craw Goal: Increase participation and success of women, minorities and people with disabilities in CS&E and in PACI

6. Education Center on Computational Science & Engineering Mission: • Foster the incorporation of high performance research • tools for scientific investigation into the undergraduate • curriculum 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.

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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 classroom • Powerpoint slides vs. Realtime Simulation • NPACI naturally supports visualization and modeling - entry point for the curriculum

10. 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)

11. 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

12. Moving Computational Science into the Undergraduate Curriculum - panel discussion Friday 8:30am - 1 • Professor Rubin Landau • Developing a Research-rich Undergraduate Computational X Curriculum • NPACI Undergraduate Team • Oregon State University • Professor J.P. Bayard • The Institute on Learning Technology, a Resource for Reform-ready Instructors • Teaching in the Areas of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) • Bridging the Chasm between Educational Research and STEM Instruction • NPACI Fellow to the U Wisconsin ILT/NISE, CSU Sacramento • ASK ABOUT ABET2000 Accreditation

13. Moving Computational Science into the Undergraduate Curriculum - panel discussion Friday 8:30am - 2 • Professor Kris Stewart • Steering Undergraduate Curriculum Development: Before & After Assessment • Director, NPACI Education Center on Computational Science & Engineering • San Diego State University • Professor Roscoe Giles • The Scales of Interaction of Undergraduate Faculty with Alliance EOT Activities • EOT-PACI Co-leader • University of Boston • Professor Greg Moses • Pathways from On-campus to Distance Learning of Computational Science • NPACI-EOT Team Leader • University of Wisconsin, Madison

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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

18. SWB as Analysis ToolView Student Comments (text)

19. SWB as Analysis ToolIsolate on Specific Survey Response

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

21. SWB as Analysis ToolExplain learning with “active participation”

22. NPACI Sources of Information NPACI Sources of Information • NPACI Partnership Report • enVision 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

23. 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