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When engineering and computing activities are solely electives, extra curriculars, or informal learning activities, student participation is limited by self-selection. By integrating technological projects into required coursework, all students gain exposure. The Arts & Bots Math and Science Partnership integrates creative robotics into middle school classes such as English and history as transdisciplinary,...
InnoEscuela is more than a learning experience, a programmed methodology to implement courses related to Technology and Computing which follows an innovative way of teaching. The methodology focuses on Project-based learning and team work. Students organize themselves in teams which are called innovative enterprises and they have to decide to create a solution to a social disadvantage, technical problem,...
Helping college freshmen to learn basic computer programming is a longstanding research topic. Various environments, tools and languages have been developed to ease the initial steps of novice programmers. However, to be used to their full extent, such artifacts should be better combined with an appropriate learning approach. This work describes pre-term workshops offered to Computer Engineering undergraduate...
This paper reports preliminary findings about the effects of changing study partners in pair learning. We hypothesize that the number of study partners, frequency of changing study partners and the amount of interaction between study partners can influence pair learning enjoyment, which in turn affects the effectiveness of pair learning. In our study, we also explored the effects of perceived usefulness...
This study aims to analyze the programming examples of commercial vocational high school textbooks in Taiwan. Five programming textbooks widely adopted by schools were reviewed to examine the presentation of programming examples' problem-solving steps: problem analysis, solution planning, coding and testing/debugging. It is found that the examples lack abundant guidance of problem-solving steps for...
We propose an introductory level teaching and learning curriculum for the ASEE COMPLEETE program (COMPetencies in Learning for Engineering and Engineering Technology Educators). COMPLEETE is an initiative for a national program to build and recognize educator excellence in engineering and engineering technology at three levels. The proposed curriculum for the introductory level is compared with curricula...
UNED (Spanish University for Distance Education) is the largest public distance education university in Spain with over 220,000 students, 1600 lecturers and 2000 administrative staff. Actually, the new degrees have been started using the EHEA (European Higher Education Area) directives. So, as it indicates in EHEA specifications, an online course must focus on personal mandatory activities as part...
This article demonstrates how the GA approach can be efficiently used to the penalty function based fuzzy goal programming (FGP) formulation of academic personnel planning problems in university management system. In the proposed approach, requirement of total full-time teaching staff and allocation of pay-roll budget to each of academic departments are fuzzily described. The recruitment of minimum...
This research discusses the development of Group Decision Support System (GDSS) software with updated functionalities that may enhance group interaction in a face-to-face brainstorming mode. Some of the functionalities include multi-language simultaneous input capabilities, including Thai, and the utilization of generic keyboard connections via USB. The developed software aims to facilitate, enhance...
Agile software methodologies are quickly becoming widely used in a variety of industry projects; their flexibility provides the means to address many common problems faced in the development of software systems. Companies commonly use selected agile techniques such as unit testing, pair programming, and iterative development even if a complete methodology is not yet embraced. As these techniques become...
The most important core competences of school education resources allocation is the teaching activities of integrating information technology into instruction. This paper explores integrating information technology into instruction how to build an education resources allocation planning model using De Novo programming for case study. We expect building an efficient planning model of integrating information...
This article describes a goal programming (GP) procedure for proper allocation of teaching personnel to the teaching departments for smooth functioning of the academic activities of a university. In the academic resource planning context, both the crisp and fuzzy goal objectives which are frequently involved with the problem are discussed. Again, certain ratios in the fractional forms which are inherently...
Teaching (and therefore learning) extreme programming (XP) in a university setting is difficult because of course time limitations and the soft nature of XP that requires first-hand experience in order to see and really learn the methods. For example, iterations are either shorter or fewer than appropriate. In this paper we present the properties to tune when designing an eXtreme programming course...
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