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David S. Bowers; Mihaela Sabin – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
The skills and competencies of IT professionals are often described using employer-led skills frameworks. They express competencies as technical knowledge and skills combined with a range of personal qualities. Employers have indicated the importance of developing such qualities for new graduates. In response, recent ACM/IEEE curricular…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Bachelors Degrees, Computer Science Education, Career Readiness
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Djelil, Fahima; Sanchez, Eric – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
Game based-learning have been widely promoted to overcome the difficulties encountered by beginners to learn programming. However, there are many issues to address for the implementation of game-based learning. Indeed, game-based learning is not limited to adding game elements such as rewards to a learning situation, but it rather consists of…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Educational Games, Design, Programming
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Zuhan Liu; Lili Wang – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
With the continuous development of embodied cognition theory and virtual reality (VR) technology, its application in teaching has been paid more and more attention by researchers. However, there are still few practical studies on the combination of VR technology and embodied learning. Starting from literature research, the paper analyzes the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Computer Simulation, Human Body, Experiential Learning
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Chrysafiadi, Konstantina; Virvou, Maria; Tsihrintzis, George A.; Hatzilygeroudis, Ioannis – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
Nowadays, the improvement of digital learning with Artificial Intelligence has attracted a lot of research, as it provides solutions for individualized education styles which are independent of place and time. This is particularly the case for computer science, as a tutoring domain, which is rapidly growing and changing and as such, learners need…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Computer Science Education, Programming
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Webb, Mary; Davis, Niki; Bell, Tim; Katz, Yaacov J.; Reynolds, Nicholas; Chambers, Dianne P.; Syslo, Maciej M. – Education and Information Technologies, 2017
In this paper we have examined the position and roles of Computer Science in curricula in the light of recent calls for curriculum change and we have proposed principles and issues to consider in curriculum design as well as identifying priority areas for further research. The paper is based on discussions within and beyond the International…
Descriptors: Computer Science, Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries, Primary Education
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Lazarinis, Fotis; Karachristos, Christoforos V.; Stavropoulos, Elias C.; Verykios, Vassilios S. – Education and Information Technologies, 2019
In this paper we report our experiences from a University outreach program with primary and secondary education teachers of various specialties. Our goal was to improve the coding abilities of teachers through Scratch activities. The participants can in turn teach their students, multiplying that way the benefitted population. To increase the…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Computer Science Education
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Passey, Don – Education and Information Technologies, 2017
The subject of computer science (CS) and computer science education (CSE) has relatively recently arisen as a subject for inclusion within the compulsory school curriculum. Up to this present time, a major focus of technologies in the school curriculum has in many countries been on applications of existing technologies into subject practice (both…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Integrated Curriculum, Required Courses, Educational Policy