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Title: Faculty Development Workshops for Integrating PDC in Early Undergraduate Curricula: An Experience Report
Parallel and Distributed Computing (PDC) has become pervasive and is now exercised on a variety of platforms. Therefore, understanding how parallelism and distributed computing affect problem solving is important for every computing and engineering professional. However, most students in computer science (CS) and computer engineering (CE) programs are still introduced to computational problem solving using an old model, in which all processing is serial and synchronous, with input and output via text using a terminal interface or a local file system. Teaching a range of PDC knowledge and skills at multiple levels in Computer Science (CS) and related Computing and Engineering curricula is essential. The challenges are significant and numerous. Although some progress has been made in terms of curriculum recommendations and educational resources in computer science, trained faculty, motivation, and inertia are still some of the major impediments to introducing PDC early in computing curricula. The authors of this paper conducted a series of week-long faculty training workshops on the integration of PDC topics in CS1 and CS2 classes, and this paper provides an experience report on the impact and effectiveness of these workshops. Our survey results indicate such faculty development workshops can be effective in gradual inclusion of PDC in early computing curricula.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1730417
PAR ID:
10492628
Author(s) / Creator(s):
; ; ;
Publisher / Repository:
ACM
Date Published:
Journal Name:
Workshops of The International Conference on High Performance Computing, Network, Storage, and Analysis (SCW 2023)
ISBN:
9798400707858
Page Range / eLocation ID:
314 to 323
Subject(s) / Keyword(s):
computer science education, parallel programming, faculty development
Format(s):
Medium: X
Location:
Denver CO USA
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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