Cyber security education and outreach is a national priority. It is critical to encourage high school students to pursue studies in cyber security and related fields. High school outreach is a fundamental component of a cohesive cyber security education program. Most high school outreach programs in cyber security focus on short-term events such as a capture the flag contest or the CyberPatriot...

Learning in the laboratory is a discovery process where students learn by physically manipulating the laboratory apparatus and collaborating with team members. However, the development of new information technology makes new types of labs available but also presents a paradox. Advocates and detractors of different lab modalities can be found. A full-text review of sixty articles indicates that ...

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[This paper is part of the Focused Collection on Gender in Physics.] This study examined the perceptions of 6th grade middle school students regarding physics and physics-related careers. The overarching goal of this work was to understand similarities and differences between girls’ and boys’ perceptions surrounding physics and physics-related careers as part of a long-term effort to increase f...

Computer-supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) is a widely accepted group-teaching and learning methodology. It focuses on communication and collaboration aspects among learning entities, between instructors and students. The contribution of this paper is twofold. Firstly we introduce a novel, role-based concept of collaborative learning where both instructors and students/student groups oper...

A gap between theory and practice in signals and systems courses is often reported at many universities as a key problem in recruiting signals and systems students. On the other hand, instructors often cite a lack of fundamental understanding in mathematics as an issue in this course. Students seem to be discontent with some of the abstraction of the signals and systems courses. In this work-in...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the status of current mobile TV phone usage and discuss the issues for strategic implications for the communications and mobile TV industry. Design/methodology/approach – Real tracking data, collected from server’s logs during 2006 and 2007 from South Korean satellite DMB providers, were analyzed according to users’ age group, peak viewing time ...

The educational experiences from robot contest of entry, junior and advance level are presented based on guided constructionism approach in education that combines hands on guidance with hands-on experience. The aim of the competition as a whole are to allow the student to (i) conceptualise the robot (ii) manage the non-deterministic characteristic of the environment and (iii) manage integrated...

Access to on-line information via the Web is exploding. Index and retrieval engines already start to integrate a huge variety of heterogeneous repositories. However, the heterogeneity issue remains, both in terms of the search formats and the formats of the result pages. In this paper we focus on html-based search and result presentations. We discuss our experience in the design, the developmen...

Several researchers stress the fact that students focus their learning according to the content in the assessment and to how this is carried out. Assessment in this particular study is not in a “usual” formal situation. Instead it refers to assessment which can be found in the interaction between teacher and pupil during hands-on work in mathematics. The analytical tools are derived from resear...