Faculty members are challenged with staying abreast of business intelligence and teaching the topic in relevant ways. The latest enhancement to the Teradata University Network (www.TeradataUniversityNetwork.com) is the addition of business intelligence software The website now offers MicroStrategy 7i, an interactive environment for business reporting and analysis and several MicroStrategy analy...

We are developing a new undergraduate certificate program in digital forensics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. To create a curriculum consistent with the fundamentally multidisciplinary nature of the field of digital forensics, we assembled a curriculum development team that includes domain experts from the fields of computer science, law, social science, psychology, and acco...

In this tutorial, we will present the Human Interface Guidelines for both iPhone and iPad and offer hands-on experience in designing user interfaces for these devices. We will also discuss how to integrate the guidelines in higher education and give examples from our lecture on iPhone application development. The goal of the tutorial is to provide the participants with a basic understanding of ...

ICT Security is one of the most challenging areas regarding education and training, both in academic and professional level. The requirement for hands-on practice with realistic attacks in real systems makes the training of ICT Security a complex task, demanding in time, resources, expertise, with constant demands for renewal of educational material and upgrading of systems so that the training...

This paper reports on four microcontroller-based courses developed at the University of Georgia for a broad multidisciplinary undergraduate and graduate student body. The courses are Introduction to Robotics, Embedded Systems, Introduction to Microcontrollers, and Advanced Microcontrollers. These courses which are taught in a hands-on manner equip students with the necessary tools and know-how ...

Universities need to pitch in to help meet the industry need for test practitioners. This paper describes efforts to expose undergraduate students to the practice and principles of software testing. Unfortunately, testing is virtually absent from the undergraduate curriculum. The goals of this effort are threefold: (1) to give students hands-on experience in the fundamentals of testing; (2) to ...

Introduction Teaching and learning of science concepts and practice has traditionally been an interactive process. That interaction most often takes place in classrooms and includes the passive consumption of lectures, intermingled with hands-on work in laboratories or field locations. These activities are interspersed with student interaction with textbooks, computers and the completion of lea...

This paper reports on three of ten themes that emerged from a study of the impacts of a fraction teaching intervention on the mathematics anxiety and fraction competence of eight Year 8 students. Two of the themes that arose from the multiple data sources related to teachers and teaching and a third related to parental support. The students identified practical, hands-on activities and group wo...

How can we promote the kinds of reflection needed for deep and lasting learning and the development of disposition toward scientific reasoning in the context of an informal learning community? In our research, we’ve discovered that learners have a greater appreciation of what they are learning when we give them the goal of helping others outside their community. This appreciation is demonstrate...

This study stemmed from concerns among researchers that reform efforts grounded in promoting inquiry as the basis for teaching science have not achieved the desired changes in American science classrooms. Many science teachers assume that they are employing inquirybased strategies when they use cookbook investigations with highly structured step-by-step instructions. Additionally, most science ...