Grinnell's CS Faculty Active Nationally and Internationally

CS faculty at Grinnell connect teaching/learning at Grinnell with the broader community

• Actively engaged in national discussions regarding curricula and pedagogy

  • Work at national level in development of curricula
  • Leaders/participants in national/international groups on various educational-computing topics
  • Authors/contributors of national reports

• Faculty actively experiment with emerging best-practices

  • Many CS faculty submit/present peer-reviewed articles related to pedagogy
  • Class materials often written up for widespread use (beyond Grinnell)
    • A number of years ago, lab materials for CSC 151 downloaded as many as 10,000 times per day from off campus for a few years
    • Monographs used by people world wide (we get very positive feedback)
    • Course materials sometimes become textbooks (in last year, Stone finished algorithms textbook for CSC 301; Walker published general-education book on computing for CSC 105).
  • Faculty actively involved with reviewing of articles, programs, other materials for conferences, journals, institutions

• Recent awards

  • Technology Association of Iowa, 2012 Women of Innovation Finalist: Academic Innovation and Leadership - Post-Secondary: Janet Davis
  • Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM): 2013 Award for Lifetime Service to the Computer Science Community: Henry Walker

created 6 February 2013 last revised 6 February 2013

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