The typical software engineering education lacks a practical experience of the process of software engineering— students are presented with relevant process theory in lectures, but have limited opportunity to put these concepts into practice in an associated class project. SimSE is an educational, interactive, fully graphical computer game that simulates software engineering processes, and is d...

Empirical software engineering has grown in importance in the software engineering research community over the last 20 years. This means that it has become very important to also include empirical studies systematically into the curricula in computer science and software engineering. This chapter presents several aspects and challenges to have in mind when doing this. The chapter presents three...

Recently, many educational institutions have had to maintain a large number of PCs (educational PCs). It is common for the administrators of these institutions to use a disk image distribution system to manage them all together. It allows the administrators to keep all of their educational PCs in the same configuration with ease. This method, however, robs them of the flexibility of management....

The report describes-a project assessing the torganizational issues surrounding microcomputers in special education, with special emphasis on software selectiob and use. 'Twelve districts were visited, and both administrative and instructional applications of microcomputers we're observed. Two`major types of software--applications and .systems software--are described, , and the principle applic...

The development of software products in general and educational games in particular is a very demanding process involving costly resources for long periods of time. Evaluating its quality throughout the development lifecycle contributes to the early identification of imperfections and to improved efficiency. In this paper we discuss a set of quality criteria and a method to assess the quality o...

What can we learn from observing students interacting with educational software? Wellinstrumented educational software can record students’ interactions over a period of several months—considerably longer than most psychology lab studies. Although long-term longitudinal studies exist, computers can record student-tutor interactions at much finer grain size; each student response, mouse click, a...

1 An educational software, namely “SEE and SEE”, that aims to enhance literacy skills of deaf or hard of hearing children is presented in this paper. The proposed computer-based educational environment, takes into account children’s visual learning characteristics. The software provides a series of adjustable functionalities to the teacher, so s/he can create visual-kinetic educational informat...

In 2003 a working group established on the initiative of the Centre of Information Technology of Education under the Ministry of Education and Science, has been reviewing regulations for the assessment and certification of educational software. This article analizes the main aspects of the proposed orders. It discusses general structure of quality assurance system, the procedures for the certif...

The article highlights the promising ways of providing access to the mathematical software in higher educational institutions. It is emphasized that the cloud computing services implementation is the actual trend of modern ICT pedagogical systems development. The analysis and evaluation of existing experience and educational research of different types of mathematical software packages use are ...

The paper argues that although the object-oriented programming (OOP) paradigm is appropriate for students taking programming modules on Higher Education (HE) software engineering course, this paradigm is not as relevant for students from other courses who study programming modules. It is also asserts that adopting another paradigm when teaching programming to non-software engineering students n...