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Team Projects in Computing Education
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Borstler, Jurgen; Hilburn, Thomas B. – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2016
Team projects are a way to expose students to conflicting project objectives, and "[t]here should be a strong real-world element...to ensure that the experience is realistic" [ACM/IEEE-CS 2015b]. Team projects provide an opportunity for students to put their education into practice and prepare them for their professional careers. The aim…
Descriptors: Teamwork, Computer Science Education, Instructional Design, Psychological Patterns
Team Projects in Computing Education
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Börstler, Jürgen; Hilburn, Thomas B. – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2015
Team projects are a way to expose students to conflicting project objectives, and "[t]here should be a strong real-world element … to ensure that the experience is realistic" [ACM/IEEE-CS 2015b]. Team projects provide students an opportunity to put their education into practice and prepare them for their professional careers. The aim of…
Descriptors: Teamwork, Computer Science Education, Instructional Design, Teaching Methods
The Use of Robotics to Promote Computing to Pre-College Students with Visual Impairments
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Ludi, Stephanie; Reichlmayr, Tom – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2011
This article describes an outreach program to broaden participation in computing to include more students with visual impairments. The precollege workshops target students in grades 7-12 and engage students with robotics programming. The use of robotics at the precollege level has become popular in part due to the availability of Lego Mindstorm…
Descriptors: High School Students, Visual Impairments, Middle School Students, Outreach Programs