The rise of interdisciplinary and no-boundary engagement has created a need to train the next generation of No-Boundary Thinking (NBT) scholars and practitioners. So it is essential that students be provided with NBT experiences in the classroom and through group-based research experiences. Our no-boundary community has offered a first generation of classes to provide an environment where students can engage in no-boundary projects and exercises, and reflect upon the nature of this type of thinking and problem solving. The following five classes were first offered in fall 2015 through spring 2018 at four institutions for undergraduate and graduate students. The experience has been enriching for both students and faculty. In all cases the courses have been well received by the students and institutions, and most instructors plan to continue to provide the classes as permanent offerings. We describe the early offerings of each class.

This is a reflection on the international computing community’s efforts to define itself as a discipline and inject computing into the core education of everyone. Their aim is to prepare us for the technology-based society in which we work and live. Scholars who aim to explore the nature of No-Boundary Thinking can learn from the self-reflection of the computing discipline, and No-Boundary Thinking might be an essential solution for the effective integration of computing into the core body of knowledge needed by every educated individual. These connections might also assuage the recent frictions between STEM and liberal arts scholar educators.