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Gonzalez, Fernando – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
The study of robotics has become a popular course among many educational programs, especially as a technical elective. A significant part of this course involves having the students learn how to program the movement of a robotic arm by controlling the velocity of its individual joint motors, a topic referred to as joint programming. They must…
Descriptors: Robotics, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Simulation
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George, Joey F.; Marett, Kent – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2019
Changes to degree programs in Information Systems are often attributed to quickly-evolving technology and the subsequent changing needs of the employers who hire IS graduates. In this paper, we explore other social and economic factors that were the inspiration for curriculum changes by assigning them to one of four eras in the IS timeline. Using…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Programming, Computer Science Education, Bachelors Degrees
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Stapleton, Suzanne C.; Royster, Melody; Bharti, Neelam; Birch, Stephanie; Bossart, Jean; Butts, Shannon; Tobin Cataldo, Tara; Gonzalez, Sara Russell; Minson, Valrie; Putnam, Samuel R.; Yip, Christine – Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2019
Motivated by a desire to encourage girls to pursue science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) studies, librarians at the Marston Science Library (Marston) at the University of Florida (UF) developed Girls Tech Camp (GTC), a summer camp designed to introduce middle-school girls to creative technologies used in these fields. This week-long…
Descriptors: Females, Adolescents, Librarians, STEM Education
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Rimanelli, Marco; Gurba, Krzysztof – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2019
Among recent e-Learning Pedagogical Strategies, gaming and crisis-simulation games are increasingly used in recent years in university-learning and Blended-courses as an out-of-context effective tool for role-playing and education, especially in Law Schools and Business Schools. Gaming covers several sub-fields (war-games; Law School Mock-Trials;…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Social Integration, Teaching Methods, Role Playing
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Hollister, Jonathan M.; Spears, Laura I.; Mardis, Marcia A.; Lee, Jisue; McClure, Charles R.; Liebman, Elizabeth – Education & Training, 2017
Purpose: In response to recent calls for research relating to employers' perceptions of the workplace readiness of new graduates in a variety of fields, the purpose of this paper is to report North Florida employers' perceptions of information technology (IT) program graduates' workplace readiness. These findings are relevant to stakeholders in…
Descriptors: Employer Attitudes, Employment Potential, College Graduates, Information Technology