Disappointing: NSF CE21 is Gone
April 15, 2013 at 1:23 am 4 comments
From Farnham Jahanian’s email to the CISE-Announce list on the new NSF budget request from the President:
CISE continues its focus on STEM-C Partnerships (formerly, the Computing Education for the 21st Century (CE21) program) in order to increase the pool of students and teachers who develop and practice computational and data competencies in a variety of contexts and to prepare more students to pursue degrees in computing, computation, and data-intensive fields of study.
It might be that STEM-C will fund everything that CE21 funded (can’t find an announcement yet to see), but the departure of a program explicitly named “Computing Education” is a loss for those of us who are trying to grow the field of Computing Education Research. If it’s not named, it’s easier to ignore.
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Jeff Forbes (@jrnf) | April 15, 2013 at 6:36 pm
As far as I know, the change is purely about naming. As you can see from the budget (http://www.nsf.gov/about/budget/fy2014/pdf/18_fy2014.pdf), the budget request is larger – $16M in FY14 compared to $12M in FY12. The program still lives in CISE, and the focus may largely be the same. As happens in most years, the solicitation will change somewhat to reflect new priorities and provide better guidance to prospective PIs.
Perhaps, through this new naming, more education researchers will learn about the program, and there will be fewer people who confuse the computing education program with Cyberlearning.
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