Partners

Foothill - De Anza Community College District (FHDA) is the fiscal agent for the project. De Anza College is the lead college and has partnered with Foothill College in order to make the quality instructional resources of both campuses available to students in the program.

SRI International

SRI International (formerly Stanford Research Institute) is one of the world's leading independent research and technology development organizations. SRI's Center for Technology in Learning (CTL) seeks to advance theory and research on effective learning and teaching.

SRI International is designing an assessment toolkit that will be used by faculty to create principled assessments for the evaluation of student learning within the scenario tasks. Dr. Louise Yarnall, Research Social Scientist, is leading this design effort.

Carnegie Mellon University-West

Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh is world renowned for its undergraduate and graduate education in Computer Science and technical fields.

Its Silicon Valley branch campus, located in the NASA Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, California, is home for a set of Master's level programs based on Story–Centered Curriculum. Carnegie Mellon University-West (CMU-West) has been a major contributing partner in the design and development of the project.

Dr. Ray Bareiss, Professor of the Practice, is a nationally recognized expert in the learn-by-doing pedagogy. Dr. Bareiss is a key consultant for our faculty development efforts.

Industry Representatives

In addition to the project partners listed above, this project has received support from the following representatives in industry:

Gaye Stevens
Director, Global Information Security
Oracle Corporation
Member of Industry Advisory Panel

Raymond J. Kehoe
Director of Engineering
Visto Corporation
Member of Industry Advisory Panel

Quynh A. Nguyen
SAP Adminstrator
IBM Global Services
Member of Industry Advisory Panel

R. Michael Sato
Corporate Director, Talent Acquisition & Development
Silicon Storage Technology, Inc.
Member of Industry Advisory Panel

Howard Pomerantz
Technical Lead
Cisco Systems, Inc.
Member of Industry Advisory Panel

W. Paul McConnell
Principle
MCS Business Services
Member of Industry Advisory Panel

Tu Tran
Intel Corporation
Member of our Industry Advisory Panel

Jenn LeMond
Greg Galford
Corporate Security
Microsoft Corporation
Input on course content

Martin G. Nystrom
Network Security Engineer, Information Security Task Force
Cisco Systems, Inc.
Input on course content

Tony Nguyen
Senior Software Engineer, Security And Monitoring Business Unit
Cisco Systems, Inc.
Subject matter expert on the course development team

David Gillett
Educational Technology Services
Foothill-De Anza Community College District,
Subject matter expert on the course development team

Paraminder Talwar
Lead Project Manager
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals
Subject matter expert on the course development team

Sarah Baker
System Administrator
Carnegie Mellon University-West
Input on course content

Felicita Saiez
President & CEO
LICI, Inc.
Input on course content

Participating Colleges

These colleges have used scenario-based tasks developed and supported by the Experiential Learning Center and funded by the National Science Foundation:

Cabrillo College, Aptos, California

De Anza College, Cupertino, California

Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, California

Langston University - Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma

Monterey Peninsula College, Monterey, California

Santa Rosa Junior College, Santa Rosa, California

Tarrant County College - NE, Hurst, Texas

Utah State University, Logan, Utah

West Shore Community College, Scottville, Michigan