Abstract:
As the parallel computing education movement attempts to increase the coverage of Parallel and Distributed Computing (PDC) material in worldwide CS curricula, a major challenge is propagation: getting others to adopt PDC-related curricular materials. This paper reports on a series of faculty development workshops for the ToUCH project, held with the goal of propagating modules on heterogeneous parallel computing. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, these workshops were held in a new virtual format that split the meeting over multiple days and included explicit expectations for followup work to increase adoption. Subsequent evaluation show that the participants appreciated the format and that many of them adopted one or more of the modules.