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Aimee Jacobs; Jacquelin J. Curry; Concetta A. DePaolo; Fernando Parra – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2024
This manuscript describes the use of real data applied to a fictional real-estate firm for teaching data visualization to university students. In the case study, students employ data analytic techniques in Tableau to clean, organize, and analyze real estate data. By creating visualizations, students address several questions about how selling…
Descriptors: Visualization, Housing, Computer Software, Data Use
Rabkin, Ariel; Reiss, Charles; Katz, Randy; Patterson, David – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2013
We describe our experiences teaching MapReduce in a large undergraduate lecture course using public cloud services and the standard Hadoop API. Using the standard API, students directly experienced the quality of industrial big-data tools. Using the cloud, every student could carry out scalability benchmarking assignments on realistic hardware,…
Descriptors: Assignments, Undergraduate Study, Computer Networks, Educational Technology
Houtman, Anne M.; Walker, Sean – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2010
The authors tested the predictions of a game theory model of plagiarism, using a test population of student papers submitted to an online plagiarism detection program, over five semesters in a non-majors biology course with multiple sections and high enrollment. Consistent with the model, as the probability of detection and the penalty if caught…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Game Theory, Plagiarism, Biology
Correia, Manuel G.; Bleicher, Robert E. – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 2008
Approaching reflection from the perspective of a teachable skill set implies that research may inform how to help students reflect. Employing a framework of making connections often used in reading comprehension, this study aimed to characterize how making connections between the service-learning experience (SLE) and prior experiences in similar…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Service Learning, Learning Experience, Reflection
Park, James; Hagen, John, Jr. – EDUCAUSE Quarterly, 2005
In spring 2003, the Distance Education Network (DEN), Viterbi School of Engineering at the University of Southern California (USC), had 860 students and more than 1,000 enrollments in 70 courses toward 10 different degrees. Typically, for assignments in engineering courses, professors require students to show how their answers are derived so that…
Descriptors: Homework, Assignments, Distance Education, Computer Software