Main Workshop
Nov. 7 and 8, 2025
Nov. 7 and 8, 2025
Location: Seminar Room 1 (SR 1) | COM1 02-06, Singapore
Date: Nov. 7 and 8, 2025
Day 1: Nov. 7, 2025 (Friday)
Designing the "To-Be" Curriculum
8:10
Shuttle Bus Pickup at Hotel Park Avenue Rochester
8:30 - 9:00
Registration and Breakfast
9:00 - 9:20
9:15 - 10:40
Self-Introduction
All
10:40 - 10:50
Short Break
10:50 - 12:00
Working Group Session 1: The New CS Graduate Profile
General Question: What are the core competencies for a CS graduate in 2030?
Group 1: Foundational & Theoretical Skills: What core CS theory, topics, or knowledge cannot be replaced?
Group 2: The New Software Engineer (SE) Role: What practical skills (code review, systems integration, testing, prompt engineering) define the new SE role?
Group 3: AI-Native Competencies: What new, specific AI skills are required (e.g., applied ML, AI systems design)?
Group 4: Professional & Ethical Skills: What soft skills (ethics, security, communication, collaboration) are now paramount?
Group 5: New Pedagogies & Teaching Strategies: How and what we teach to foster these new competencies?
12:00 - 13:30
Lunch
13:30 - 14:30
Working Group Session 1 (continued)
Participants will be split into five groups to discuss the topic
14:30 - 15:40
Working Group Session 1 Presentation
10 mins/group
15:40 - 16:00
Tea Break
16:00 - 18:00
Working Group Session 2: Architecting the New Curriculum
General Question: Based on the "Graduate Profile," what does the 4-year curriculum look like?
Group 1: The New Core (Years 1-2): Redesign the introductory sequence. How do we teach "CS101" when AI can write the code? What replaces it?
Group 2: Advanced Pathways (Years 3-4): Propose new tracks or specializations.
Group 3: The Assessment & Integrity Framework: Propose concrete assessment methods that are "AI-resistant" or "AI-inclusive."
Group 4: The Ethics & Societal Impact Thread: Design a guideline for ethics, security, and societal impact that integrates into every year of the curriculum, not just one course.
Group 5: The AI-as-Collaborator Policy: Define AI's role. What is the official policy? How do we use AI as a co-educator (e.g., for enhancing resources, tutoring)?
18:00 - 18:10
Day 1 Closing Remarks
18:15
Bus pickup at workshop venue to the dinner place
19:00 - 21:15
Dinner
Restaurant: Sawasdee Thai Restaurant
Location: 6 /8 Trengganu St, Singapore 058460
21:15
Shuttle Bus Pickup at Restaurant
Day 2 Nov. 8, 2025 (Saturday)
Building the "How-To" Action Plan
8:10
Shuttle Bus Pickup at Hotel
8:30 - 9:00
Breakfast
9:00 - 9:10
Remarks & Recap
9:10 - 11:00
Working Group Session 2 Discussion
Group 4 (a.k.a Group 1) - The Ethics & Societal Impact Thread: Design a guideline for ethics, security, and societal impact that integrates into every year of the curriculum, not just one course.
Group 1 - The New Core (Years 1-2): Redesign the introductory sequence. How do we teach "CS101" when AI can write the code? What replaces it?
Group 2 - Advanced Pathways (Years 3-4): Propose new tracks or specializations.
Group 3 - The AI-as-Collaborator Policy: Define AI's role. What is the official policy? How do we use AI as a co-educator (e.g., for enhancing resources, tutoring)? The Assessment & Integrity Framework: Propose assessment methods that are "AI-resistant" or "AI-inclusive."
11:00 - 12:20
Working Group Session 2 presentation (20 mins/group)
12:20 - 13:30
Lunch
13:30 - 15:30
Working Group Session 3 (Plan, Research Proposals)
Group 1: Foundational Research for the Next-Generation SE: Aligns with Day 1's "Foundational Skills" and "New SE Role". This group defines the new science required to build, verify, and secure the complex AI-native systems that graduates will be asked to create (e.g., verifiable systems, AI-driven SE, ethical auditing).
Group 2: The Co-evolving Talent & Infrastructure Pipeline: This group redesigns the academia-industry interface beyond internships to create a dynamic, shared ecosystem for both talent and technology (e.g., new collaborative models, shared infrastructure, continuous feedback loop).
Group 3: The Research Agenda for AI-augmented Pedagogy: This group moves beyond a simple "best practices" guide to define the fundamental research needed to build, deploy, and understand AI's role in education (e.g., cognitive impact, assessment innovation, co-educator development).
Group 4: The Faculty & Institutional Action Plan: Day 1 vision is impossible without institutional change and faculty development (e.g., faculty upskilling, institutional barriers, curricular review cycles, tenure incentives, resource allocation, model governance, and policy).
15:30 - 16:00
Tea Break
16:00 - 17:00
Working Group Session 3 Presentation (15 mins/group)
17:10 - 17:30
White Paper & Research Proposals Contribution
Closing Remarks & Next Steps
18:15
Shuttle Bus Pickup at Workshop