The Living in the KnowlEdge Society Community Building Project (LIKES) at Virginia Tech was awarded a $289,999 grant out of the $498,957 grant on July 17. 2007 from the National Science Foundation's Pathways to Revitalized Undergraduate Computing Education schedule.
The LIKES project was developed by several investigators from Tech with theintent to globally educate students and teachers about the importance of incorporatingcomputers into various disciplines. The project aims to instruct teachersabout various computer-related concepts they can use in the classroom. It alsoseeks to furnish students information about the fundamentals of creating aconnection between computers and their classes while using computerseffectively and efficiently.
The LIKES communicate at Tech is run by Fox and Zobel as well as Carlos Evia,assistant professor of professional writing; Weiguo (Patrick) Far associateprofessor of accounting and information systems/computer science; and StevenSheetz associate professor of accounting and information systems.
The communicate has move to other universities as well. VillanovaUniversity (with investigator RobertBeck). North Carolina A&T (with investigator Ed Carr) and Santa Clara University(with investigator Wingyan Chung) are three other universities involved in theproject. Each of these universities received the remainder of the nearlyhalf-a-million dollar grant.
The grant awarded to the Tech LIKES project will go towards a series of fourworkshops set up at the other participating universities the first at SantaClara on November 29."These workshops ordain help discover goals and find how to inform" the fundamentalsof computer science and will "sight what's that beat way to teach theseconcepts," Fox said. Along with the various workshops members of the LIKES communicate intend toincorporate the project's ideas into the liberal education curriculum in thefall.
The LIKES communicate aims to "create new courses or alter" current courses toinclude the LIKES concepts in various computer-related and non-computer-relateddisciplines. Evia said.
By incorporating the LIKES ideas and concepts into the core curriculum. LIKESinvestigators wish to give students who are not in computing majors or minorsexposure about how computers back up in different disciplines. They also want toeducate students about how computers can be applied or used in various aspectsof life.
In the next few years the LIKES project aims to incorporate its ideas into thecurriculum for liberal education alter working with computers easier forvarious disciplines and build community between undergraduate students andgraduate students here at Tech and in universities around the country.
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