TY - GEN
T1 - We Need Community Effort to Achieve PDC Adoption!
AU - Saule, Erik
AU - Subramanian, Kalpathi
AU - Payton, Jamie
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 IEEE.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - The Center for Parallel and Distributed Computing Curriculum Development and Educational Resources (CDER) released a PDC guideline in 2012 and soon after IEEE/ACM included PDC topics in their CS curriculum guidelines in 2013. CDER is currently working to update the PDC guidelines. The primary strategy to achieve adoption of PDC in early CS course is the courseware approach where pedagogical materials are developed and made available for instructors to integrate PDC content into their courses. content. Despite the creation of many new materials, adoption of PDC content has been fairly slow. In this position paper, we present a framework to classify the marks one need to hit to develop courseware that is adoptable, portable, engaging, and easy to find. We review some of the efforts to improve PDC adoption in the US and we hypothesize that these efforts have not consistently exhibited the attributes necessary for wide adoption. Our position is that while the courseware that have been developed by the community are essential stepping stones, we will not see PDC adoption until a larger community can be brought to bear on the problem. We need to enable composing and remixing the existing materials and develop new materials to cover the needs of a diverse range of institutions.
AB - The Center for Parallel and Distributed Computing Curriculum Development and Educational Resources (CDER) released a PDC guideline in 2012 and soon after IEEE/ACM included PDC topics in their CS curriculum guidelines in 2013. CDER is currently working to update the PDC guidelines. The primary strategy to achieve adoption of PDC in early CS course is the courseware approach where pedagogical materials are developed and made available for instructors to integrate PDC content into their courses. content. Despite the creation of many new materials, adoption of PDC content has been fairly slow. In this position paper, we present a framework to classify the marks one need to hit to develop courseware that is adoptable, portable, engaging, and easy to find. We review some of the efforts to improve PDC adoption in the US and we hypothesize that these efforts have not consistently exhibited the attributes necessary for wide adoption. Our position is that while the courseware that have been developed by the community are essential stepping stones, we will not see PDC adoption until a larger community can be brought to bear on the problem. We need to enable composing and remixing the existing materials and develop new materials to cover the needs of a diverse range of institutions.
KW - adoption of PDC in early CS courses
KW - courseware
KW - PDC curriculum
KW - student engagement
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85126518117
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85126518117#tab=citedBy
U2 - 10.1109/HiPCW54834.2021.00013
DO - 10.1109/HiPCW54834.2021.00013
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85126518117
T3 - 2021 IEEE 28th International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data and Analytics Workshop, HiPCW 2021
SP - 43
EP - 49
BT - 2021 IEEE 28th International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data and Analytics Workshop, HiPCW 2021
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 28th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data and Analytics Workshop, HiPCW 2021
Y2 - 17 December 2021 through 20 December 2021
ER -