The workshop held November 10-11, 1986 and May 4, 1987 [for] National Science Foundation, NSF Grant No. DMC-8615486. Report contains a Foreword by John N. Warfield. (REPRINTED IN CIM REPORTS, VOL. 1- 1990) This was one of Warfield's best and most important workshops, he even had a budget to pay visiting outside consultants (travel money only, probably) to attend the meetings. He invited experts in math and engineering to be participants, and also got faculty members from George Mason University. There is a CIM videotape of the Curriculum Workshop, available in Warfield Special Collection at Fenwick Library. (Please go to the AUDIOVISUALS table of this database to see a database record of the videos). EDUCATION PAPERS BY WARFIELD, contains this paper in VOL4.DOC (p 261) Donated to GMU in 2000, there are three different folders of hard copy in Warfield Special Collection Box 9, all holding papers from this workshop.
ADD THIS PARAGRAPH BY Warfield, IF THERE IS EVER A REPRINT: An extra paragraph, written by Warfield in 1991, should be added to this report if it is ever reprinted. Warfield's extra paragraph came about because in 1991 Rose was trying to list and catalog all the CIM Reports. When thinking about a good annotation for Curriculum Workshop, Rose asked Warfield for an explanation of what the report was about. Warfield picked up the report and looked through it. He was dumbfounded to discover that in Volkema's editing job the use of a Combined Structures Technique was not mentioned. So in 1991, five years after the original report was printed and distributed, Warfield sat down and typed up an explanation of what the report contained. Here is his paragraph:
"A given ISM session creates a particular type of structure. One type is called a problematique. It is a pattern of relationships among problems, showing how each problem may aggravate any other problem in the pattern. If a problematique has been created, a second type of structure may sometimes be created which uses the problematique as a given. To create this second type, called a Resolution Structure, a set of options is structured to show which proposed option (if any) will help resolve one or more problems in the problematique. At the conclusion of this second ISM session, a larger pattern becomes available, which contains the problematique as a sub-pattern. In this larger pattern, options connect to problems to show that those particular options will help resolve part of the problematique."
(Warfield said that this workshop was the very first time that a resolution structure had been created in a real-life situation, using the software for the first time that made it possible. Since then the technique has been used numerous times in other sessions. He said it is not that difficult to do this structuring, but nobody had had the time to do it before this workshop.) Somewhere there is a Ventura transparency titled "Curriculum Structure, Mathematics for Computer Science" cav02 & edv01. It was done during this workshop, and might possibly be one of the figures in it, I don't know for sure. The 1986 version listed only Volkema, as the editor/author. There was also a 1991 printout of this report done by Rose. In this 1991 printing the title page was modified to include other CIM authors who contributed. Alexander Christakis was the main facilitator for the workshop; assistants were D.Keever, G. Tonella, Semi Ululatim, Margi Fiore, and possibly others, since all CIM workshops were group efforts and Rose regarded all CIM staff as authors. All of the first issue of Curriculum Workshop is gone, distributed after 1986 to visitors and students. Fenwick Library's call number for the series is: H61.W372, v1-11. The Curriculum Workshop report is in Volume 1 of this set of CIM REPORTS: (World Catalog Number: 22627075) R.w. , Updated 19 April 2015.
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