These bioinformatics retreats convened 46 participants in teams of biologists, mathematicians, and computer scientists as well as faculty from related disciplines, instructional technologists, and librarians from 18 colleges.
Although the BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium has a 25-yr history of educating current faculty and bringing biologists, mathematicians, and computer scientists together to collaborate on curriculum developments, many faculty are still uncomfortable with the approaches outlined in this special issue.
The purpose of the course, according to Tygar's faculty Web page, is to teach Berkeley's budding computer scientists to "forensically examine real cyberwar attacks" with an eye toward preventing them.
"The purpose of the Brown Institute will be to create the closest ongoing partnership I'm aware of between journalists and computer scientists," the dean of the school, Nicholas Lemann, wrote in an e-mail message to students and faculty members.
However, in the same way faculty members seek interdisciplinary collaborations to complement their technical research agendas (e.g., biologists working with computer scientists), they can seek similar interdisciplinary collaborations with educational researchers to support their scholarship of teaching and learning.
How can computer scientists help?
"Mathematicians and computer scientists are also constructors".
Engineers, computer scientists and mechanics tend to be male.
Other computer scientists championed statistics as the preferred path.
Given the challenges, we see tremendous opportunities for data scientists, computer scientists and entrepreneurs.
