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Student initiated capstone projects

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Alan Fedoruk,

Mingwei Gong,

Michael McCarthyAuthors Info & Claims

SIGITE '14: Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference on Information technology education

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2656450.2656475

Published: 14 October 2014 Publication History

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Capstone projects/courses, in which students undertake a significant project under supervision, have been offered in many computing programs In this paper, we present our experience for the senior project course as offered by the BCIS program at Mount Royal University, which provides an environment for students to successfully complete a capstone experience. This senior project capstone is a student initiated, single semester, individual, open ended project. We include the motivation for and the advantages of this approach as well as details of an exemplar project. The exemplar project shows student initiated projects foster student interest and motivation and enable projects with depth and breadth to be completed.

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Estes TFinocchiaro JBlair JRobison JDalme JEmana MJenkins LSobiesk EBoisvert DZilora S(2016)A Capstone Design Project for Teaching Cybersecurity to Non-technical UsersProceedings of the 17th Annual Conference on Information Technology Education10.1145/2978192.2978216(142-147)Online publication date: 28-Sep-2016
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Student initiated capstone projects
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Information systems education
      2. Model curricula

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Scott AKreahling WHolliday MBarlowe SZilora SAyers TBogaard D(2017)A Holistic Capstone ExperienceProceedings of the 18th Annual Conference on Information Technology Education10.1145/3125659.3125680(1-6)Online publication date: 27-Sep-2017
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3125659.3125680
Estes TFinocchiaro JBlair JRobison JDalme JEmana MJenkins LSobiesk EBoisvert DZilora S(2016)A Capstone Design Project for Teaching Cybersecurity to Non-technical UsersProceedings of the 17th Annual Conference on Information Technology Education10.1145/2978192.2978216(142-147)Online publication date: 28-Sep-2016
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