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Payne, Brian K.; He, Wu; Wang, Cong; Wittkower, D. E.; Wu, Hongyi – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2021
This paper describes an interdisciplinary effort involving faculty from five different disciplines who came together to develop an interdisciplinary, open, general education cybersecurity course. The course, Cybersecurity, Technology, and Society, brings together ideas from interdisciplinary studies, information technology, engineering, business,…
Descriptors: Computer Security, Interdisciplinary Approach, Curriculum Development, General Education
Kuehn, Daniel; Hecker, Ian; Simon, Alphonse – Urban Institute, 2019
Workers with training in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) are in high demand in the United States and are essential to innovation and economic growth. Apprenticeship is a proven strategy for training workers, but it is underutilized in STEM occupations. This report explores employers' experiences with STEM apprenticeship.…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, STEM Education, Occupations, Job Skills
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Desai, Niranjan; Stefanek, George – American Journal of Engineering Education, 2017
Student access to the Internet has made it much easier for students to find solutions to traditional homework problems online and thereby has made this traditional assessment method of monitoring student progress and gauging the assimilation of knowledge in engineering and technology courses less reliable. This paper presents an in-class,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Homework, Technology, Tests
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Bozkurt, Aras; Keskin, Nilgun Ozdamar; de Waard, Inge – Open Praxis, 2016
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have attracted a great deal of attention by higher education and private enterprises. MOOCs have evolved considerably since their emergence in 2008, all the while given rise to academic discussions on MOOC impact, design and reach. In an effort to understand MOOCs more comprehensively, this study analyzes theses…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Large Group Instruction, Educational Research, Trend Analysis
Chinnappa Gounder Periaswamy, Senthilkumar – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Radio frequency identification (RFID) tags are low-cost devices that are used to uniquely identify the objects to which they are attached. Due to the low cost and size that is driving the technology, a tag has limited computational capabilities and resources. This limitation makes the implementation of conventional security protocols to prevent…
Descriptors: Identification, Probability, Computation, Engineering
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Merrick, K. E. – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2010
This correspondence describes an adaptation of puzzle-based learning to teaching an introductory computer programming course. Students from two offerings of the course--with and without the puzzle-based learning--were surveyed over a two-year period. Empirical results show that the synthesis of puzzle-based learning concepts with existing course…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Course Content, Computers, Programming
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Devedzic, V.; Milenkovic, S. R. – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2011
This paper describes the authors' experience of teaching agile software development to students of computer science, software engineering, and other related disciplines, and comments on the implications of this and the lessons learned. It is based on the authors' eight years of experience in teaching agile software methodologies to various groups…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Computer Science, Engineering, College Faculty
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Tedre, Matti; Sutinen, Erkki – Computer Science Education, 2008
Educators in the computing fields are often familiar with the characterization of computing as a combination of theoretical, scientific, and engineering traditions. That distinction is often used to guide the work and disciplinary self-identity of computing professionals. But the distinction is, by no means, an easy one. The three traditions of…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Intellectual Disciplines, Educational Principles, Information Technology
Education Scotland, 2014
This report continues the series in which Education Scotland evaluates the quality of young people's learning and achievements, in this case in the technologies. The report contributes to the overall picture of what it is like to be a learner in a Scottish early learning or childcare setting or school in this second decade of the 21st Century. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Technology Uses in Education, Early Childhood Education, Child Care
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Battig, Michael; Shariq, Muhammad – Information Systems Education Journal, 2011
Using a previously published study of how students differentiate between computing disciplines, this study attempts to validate the original research and add additional hypotheses regarding the type of institution that the student resides. Using the identical survey instrument from the original study, students in smaller colleges and in different…
Descriptors: Computer Science, Intellectual Disciplines, College Students, Validity
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Ivanova, Malinka – Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 2012
Purpose: The aim of this paper is to identify the main social competencies that future engineers need to become recognized professionals. In the paper the key competencies for contemporary engineers are examined and the focus is given on the importance of social competencies for professional development. A competency research model is developed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Competence, Social Behavior, Engineering
ACT, Inc., 2015
ACT has been a leader in measuring college and career readiness trends since 1959. Each August, ACT releases The Condition of College & Career Readiness (www.act.org/newsroom/data/2015), an annual report on the progress of the ACT-tested graduating class relative to college readiness. Nationally, a record 59% of the 2015 graduating class took…
Descriptors: STEM Education, College Entrance Examinations, Science Interests, Student Interests
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Stankovic, Nenad; Tillo, Tammam – Journal of Information Technology Education, 2009
Concurrent engineering or overlapping activities is a business strategy for schedule compression on large development projects. Design parameters and tasks from every aspect of a product's development process and their interdependencies are overlapped and worked on in parallel. Concurrent engineering suffers from negative effects such as excessive…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Learning Strategies, Engineering, Teaching Methods
Kane, Laura Townsend, Ed. – ALA Editions, 2011
Thanks in part to technology, the boundaries of library positions are dissolving. It is no longer practical to discuss the profession in terms of traditional library types, and in today's library, the relationship between librarians and technology is stronger than ever. In this informative volume, veteran author Laura Townsend Kane interviews…
Descriptors: Librarians, Information Technology, Engineering, Computer Science
ACT, Inc., 2014
ACT has been a leader in measuring college and career readiness trends since 1959. Each August, they release "The Condition of College & Career Readiness" (www.act.org/newsroom/data/2014), their annual report on the progress of the ACT-tested graduating class relative to college readiness. Nationally, 57% of the 2014 graduating class…
Descriptors: STEM Education, College Entrance Examinations, Science Interests, Student Interests
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