Teaching global disruption and information technology online

Computer science has always dealt with limits. In 2015, a group of researchers, including the three authors of this article, organized the first LIMITS conference, which provided a venue for bringing together scholars from many different subfields to foster discussion on the impact of present or fut...

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Published in:Interactions (New York, N.Y.) N.Y.), 2016-11, Vol.23 (6), p.40-43
Main Authors: Tomlinson, Bill, Patterson, Donald J., Nardi, Bonnie
Format: Magazinearticle
Language:English
Subjects:
Computer science
Curriculum development
Information technology
Online instruction
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Summary:Computer science has always dealt with limits. In 2015, a group of researchers, including the three authors of this article, organized the first LIMITS conference, which provided a venue for bringing together scholars from many different subfields to foster discussion on the impact of present or future ecological, material, energetic, and/or societal limits on computing. Through a competitive process, the University of California Office of the President's Innovative Learning Technologies Initiative awarded a grant to prototype and run the course. ICS 5: Global Disruption and Information Technology was one of the first online courses to be offered across the nine undergraduate campuses of the University of California system. The course has been offered three times to date: Winter 2015, Fall 2015, and Spring 2016. This article describes the course, and the experiences teaching it, in an effort to help others offer similar content to students at various educational levels.
ISSN:1072-5520
1558-3449
DOI:10.1145/3003818