Curriculum Library

Learning Outcomes and Assessments

Evaluating students' grasp of these different learning outcomes requires different forms of assessment

Service Learning

Service learning creates a sense of community and citizenship among students and it also allows students to develop an understanding and appreciation for people from backgrounds different from their own.

Managing Resistance

While computing activities and labs incorporating ethical discussion/responsible computing or thinking are embraced by many of the students, there is a vocal group of students who do not feel that these themes are relevant to them, their training, and/or their future career goals.

Difficult Conversations

By including meaningful, hard conversations about these topics, one can facilitate student learning on issues that will only become more urgent as time goes on.

Structured Ways of Thinking about Computing and Society

In order to provide students with a basis for ongoing development and continuous learning, you need to give them structured ways of thinking about computing and society.

Discussing Justice and Equity

Encourage students to examine what they think and what aspects of their identity, experience, and training contributes to their perspective.

Engaging with Industry

Engaging with software engineers and others who work in industry is likely to surface issues that might not otherwise be top of mind for academic faculty.

Effective Talking Points for Different Audiences

Talking points help with reframing ethics to address concerns people may have but are not articulated and prevent fuller engagement.

Hiring, Promotion, and Tenure

Talking About Unanticipated Consequences

he topic of this section is more like (but also importantly different from) a logical error that the programmers didn’t catch: the program will run, but the fact that its results are wrong will not be immediately apparent.