Innovations and Opportunities
in Liberal Arts Computing Education
An affiliated event at SIGCSE 2022 organized by members of the SIGCSE Committee on Computing Education in Liberal Arts Colleges. This event will let us share and learn about curricular innovations, challenges, and opportunities particular to our liberal arts settings.
Event Agenda
- Wednesday, March 2nd, 2022 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM EST
- Rhode Island Convention Center
- Room 555 A/B
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 8:30-8:45 | Welcome and Opening Remarks |
| 8:45-9:30 | Curricular Innovations Panel |
| 9:30-9:45 | Break |
| 9:45-10:45 | Curricular Innovations Breakout 1 |
| 10:45-11:00 | Break |
| 11:00-12:00 | Curricular Innovations Breakout 2 |
| 12:00-1:30 | Lunch break on your own |
| 1:30-2:00 | Selection of Unconference sessions |
| 2:00-4:30 | Unconference sessions |
| 4:30-5:00 | Optional business meeting |
| Evening | Optional dinner groups |
Additional details on specific sessions are given below.
Event organizers will collect links to content created in each session and add them to the Resulting materials page.
Session Details
Curricular Innovations panel
The Panel will include 5-minute presentations followed by Q&A on the following topics:
- Helping Non-CS Faculty Teach Core CS Concepts. Valerie Barr - Mount Holyoke College, Colby College, Union College
- The Doane University Institute for Computing. Alec Engebreston and Mark Meysenburg - Doane University
- Integrating Open Challenges in the Undergraduate Curriculum. Giovanni Vincenti - The University of Baltimore
- New Directions in Computing: Arts and Computing in NYC. Maria Hwang - Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) and Mark Santolucito - Barnard College
- Integrating Open Challenges in the Undergraduate Curriculum. Giovanni Vincenti - The University of Baltimore
- Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software in a Liberal Arts Computing Curriculum. Grant Braught - Dickinson College
Curricular Innovations breakout sessions
The first breakout sessions will be facilitated by the panelists and will be organized around the topics presented. However, discussions in each session will provide opportunities for discussion and ideation of ongoing or potential innovations at the participants’ institutions. These ideas will be used to generate the topics for the second breakout session.
Selection of Unconference sessions
A list of proposed unconference sessions is available on the Resulting Materials page; additions to this list will be accepted up until the time of the event and participants will be reminded of the link to this information prior to the lunch break. Upon return from lunch, attendees interact with session organizers and indicate interest in various sessions and a set will be chosen to proceed for the remainder of the afternoon.
Unconference sessions
Selected sessions will gather and session leaders will follow their provided plan for the allotted time. An announcement will be made encouraging groups to take a break at the midpoint of the session, but individual sessions will have flexibility to divide up this time in the manner that best suits their topic and intended collaboration.
Business meeting
The SIGCSE Committee on Computing Education in Liberal Arts College will hold a business meeting open to any attendees who wish to participate. Topics will include planning for the April 1st hybrid CCSC-NE session, identifying new priorities for the Liberal Arts Computing community, and collecting feedback and ideas for future activities. The Committee is always looking for members interested in leading events and welcomes attendees who want to find ways to get more involved.
Unless otherwise noted on an individual resource, all materials in this repository are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License