Lance Goodridge will present his MSE Talk "Systems to Scale CS Education" on Friday, May 10th, 2019 at 1pm in CS 401
Lance Goodridge will present his MSE Talk "Systems to Scale CS Education" on Friday, May 10th, 2019 at 1pm in CS 401. The members of his committee are as follows: Jeremie Lumbroso (adviser) and Szymon Rusinkiewicz. Everyone is invited to attend his talk. His abstract follows below. The enrollment numbers for Computer Science courses have been increasing for the last decade, and many institutions have realized that they don't have the faculty / teaching staff to adequately support the growing demand. Recently, a certain solution has become popular: hire talented undergraduates to supplement the course staff and perform tasks requiring a lot of manpower, such as grading or providing assistance on homework assignments. However, this comes with its own set of problems, which universities are only now beginning to realize. Principally, managing a fleet of undergraduate assistants requires significant administrative overhead to hire and organize these workers, and care must be taken to ensure the quality of undergraduate peer interactions is acceptable and consistent. Institutions that do not adequately handle these two pain points will struggle to reap the benefits of incorporating peer teaching, as the course staff will instead waste their effort on managing the assistants rather than the students directly. The systems we have built, TigerUHR, LabQueue, and PersonalityDB, address these issues, and help CS departments scale appropriately with their growing enrollment numbers.
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Nicki Mahler