Practical Education Fostered by Research Projects in an Embedded Systems Course

Qualitative Research Projects in Computing Education Research: An Overview

Qualitative research approaches have much to offer computing education research (CER). Conducting studies which are theoretically anchored in pedagogy, as well as in computing, can help us to draw more solid and significant conclusions about how students learn computing. When studying teaching and learning situations it is important to take into explicit account what is meant by learning. We cl...

In Search of an Information Systems Projects Course

This paper chronicles the author’s seven-semester odyssey towards a one-semester IS projects course which gives students practical software engineering experience. The course must also be manageable by the Instructor. Students gain experience practicing the disciplines of team management, quality assurance, configuration management, software documentation, testing, and the use of CASE tools. Th...

Work in progress - An agile embedded systems design capstone course

Embedded systems design has been characterized by the combination of two basic design methodologies: Hardware and Software. In this work in progress we incorporated Agile Project Management methodologies to a Computer Engineering Technology senior capstone course on product ideation, prototyping, demonstration and final presentation. As students were going through the course, they were; imprint...

Use of course-embedded projects for program assessment.

There is increasing demand on science faculty to develop authentic assessment measures for both individual courses and undergraduate programs. We report here on a quarter-long group project used in a neurophysiology course that can be used for either purpose. Small groups of four to five students critically analyze at least 10 articles from the primary scientific literature. The end result of t...

Research on course management systems in higher education - Edited by Angela D Benson and Andrew Whitworth