Computing Curricula 2005: The Overview Report
Proceedings of the 37th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
Open Source GIS: A GRASS GIS Approach
Open Source GIS: A GRASS GIS Approach
Understanding Place: GIS and Mapping Across the Curriculum
Understanding Place: GIS and Mapping Across the Curriculum
Broadening participation in computing: issues and challenges
Proceedings of the 12th annual SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
Education: Paving the way for computational thinking
Communications of the ACM - Designing games with a purpose
Geographic information systems: real world applications for computer science
ACM SIGCSE Bulletin
A multidisciplinary approach towards computational thinking for science majors
Proceedings of the 40th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education
Thinking about computational thinking
Proceedings of the 40th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education
The profession of IT: Beyond computational thinking
Communications of the ACM - One Laptop Per Child: Vision vs. Reality
Computational thinking (CT): on weaving it in
ITiCSE '09 Proceedings of the 14th annual ACM SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
Distance learning components in CS and GIS courses
Proceedings of the 16th Western Canadian Conference on Computing Education
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We designed a system where non-computational faculty members (along with undergraduates) enroll in an introductory, multidisciplinary, open source Geographic Information System (GIS) course to experience integrative learning as students. The faculty participants are subsequently required to integrate their newly acquired expertise with their own disciplinary teaching and research; the necessary time commitment is compensated by a three-credit teaching load reallocation. Our hypothesis is that increasing the general faculty's appreciation of computation (in the context of integrative learning) is an indirect yet effective and scalable way to reach a wider group of students to convey our fundamental disciplinary message: computing is more than programming and computing empowers people.