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Jiahui Zhang – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Competency-based education (CBE) has become well-accepted as a powerful way to personalize learning. Today's advanced technologies have enhanced CBE even further. Practitioners in the field are seeking means to take advantage of technology to increase CBE's effectiveness and efficiency, especially for adult learners. Microlearning and digital open…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Technological Advancement, Technology Uses in Education, Technology Integration
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Vicente, Aileen Joan; Tan, Tiffany Adelaine; Yu, Alvin Ray – Journal of Information Technology Education: Innovations in Practice, 2018
Aim/Purpose: This study was aimed at enhancing students' learning of software engineering methods. A collaboration between the Computer Science, Business Management, and Product Design programs was formed to work on actual projects with real clients. This interdisciplinary form of collaboration simulates the realities of a diverse Software…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Computer Science Education, Engineering Education, Business Administration Education
Etter, D. M. – Engineering Education, 1986
Describes a senior-level course which teaches engineers to design and implement a large software project within a team structure. Management issues, technical issues, project phases, and examples of student projects are included. (JN)
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Software, Course Descriptions, Engineering Education
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Goodwin, Bernard M.; And Others – CoED, 1984
Presents an instructional process designed to achieve educational objectives (comprehension, analysis, evaluation, synthesis, and application) in introductory computer programming and applications courses through student projects. The projects involve goals based on these objectives and integrate computational techniques, plotting displays, and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Objectives, Computation, Computer Graphics, Computer Software
Mattson, Merry B. – Classroom Computer Learning, 1984
Suggests having students design a football field (looking at it from above) as the final project of a unit on computer graphics. Includes listings for 13 short Applesoft programs (involving LO- and HI-RES graphics) which students can use in making the field. Advanced students can use the animation techniques. (JN)
Descriptors: Computer Graphics, Computer Science Education, Computer Software, Intermediate Grades
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Herron, Peter – AMATYC Review, 1989
Discusses a student project visualizing the surface of a function using computer graphics. Describes topics to complete the project, function and its domain, scaling, coordinate axes, projection of the surface, sketching the graph, plotting, changing the viewpoint, and rotating the axes. Provides a BASIC program using the rotation of the axes and…
Descriptors: College Mathematics, Computer Graphics, Computer Software, Functions (Mathematics)
Menk, Dennis – 1990
This module on presentation skills is designed for beginning computer applications classes for nondata processing majors. The module is designed to enhance students' presentation skills and teamwork abilities. The students, working in teams of two, select from a list of software projects. The student teams research, outline, and demonstrate the…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Software, Learning Modules, Postsecondary Education
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Epstein, Jacqueline F. – Perspectives in Education and Deafness, 1992
Deaf students in grades 6-8 issued a newspaper as a regular part of the English curriculum. The project involved making a trip to a newspaper publisher, setting aside a "newsroom" classroom area, selecting staff, brainstorming story ideas, learning to use the Newsroom computer program, writing, editing, and planning the layout. (JDD)
Descriptors: Computer Software, Curriculum, Deafness, English Instruction
Hunter, Beverly – Computing Teacher, 1985
Discusses typical uses of databases and data management programs in the classroom; provides a learning plan to teach students how to use databases; lists typical student projects using databases; and presents criteria to help educators choose appropriate database management programs for their classrooms. (MBR)
Descriptors: Computer Software, Databases, Elementary Education, Evaluation Criteria
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Strot, Melody – Gifted Child Today Magazine, 1998
Offers suggestions on ways to use computers to individualize instruction for gifted students including drill and practice, simulation programs, independent research, creative projects, organization of data, and development of presentations. (DB)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Drills (Practice), Elementary Secondary Education
Pollard, James – 1986
In October and November 1986, the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory (NWREL) sponsored a series of forums for elementary teachers to share ideas about the use of computers in the classroom. During the forums, each teacher took from 15 to 30 minutes to explain how he or she taught the lesson that was being shared. The informality of the…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Simulation, Computer Software, Database Management Systems
Watt, Dan – Popular Computing, 1985
Describes an innovative, tool-based high school computer literacy course that involves student use of productivity software to learn what computers do in the real world rather than programing. Several student projects, teacher qualifications and responsibilities, and the role of peer teaching are discussed. (MBR)
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Computer Literacy, Computer Software, Course Descriptions
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Gesler, Wilbert; Kaplan, Abram – Journal of Geography, 1993
Contends that students in spatial analysis courses generally are familiar with computer use and programs but lack basic computer programing skills. Describes four exercises in which students learn programing using BASIC and dBASE. Asserts that programming exercises help students clarify concepts, understand the rationale behind calculations, use…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Curriculum Design, Geography Instruction
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Cacha, Frances B. – Social Studies, 1985
How microcomputers can be used in the elementary social studies classroom to teach and reinforce new concepts, to relieve teachers of a variety of time-consuming chores, and to motivate students to produce creative projects is discussed. (RM)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Managed Instruction, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Software
Ward, Douglas R.; Tiessen, Esther L. – Educational Technology, 1997
Introduces an instructional approach referred to as collaborative project-based learning and describes a new Web-based technology, "ALiVE" designed to support this instructional approach. Discusses information resources management; scaffolding with templates; communication; collaboration; coordination; and technological overhead.…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Cooperative Learning
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