How to scale our capacity to offer high-quality CS Education – CRA Education Committee
November 6, 2017 at 7:00 am 3 comments
What a great idea! The CRA Education Committee has created a website of practices to help CS departments manage “Generation CS.” It includes projects from Google’s CS Capacity Awards.
Although different institutions, large and small, are experiencing the enrollment increases in different ways, many programs are already operating at or beyond their maximum capacity. To help departments and faculty deal with this capacity crunch, this Scaling Capacity website is intended to provide a platform for sharing technological and pedagogical interventions for addressing capacity challenges. These practices are not designed to be ‘one size fits all’, but rather offer a variety of solutions derived from specific university needs.This intervention list includes recipients of Google’s CS Capacity Awards and other self-nominated programs.
Source: Scaling Capacity – CRA Education
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