Software development projects sourced from external organizations can serve as an excellent platform to help build student competencies because they often provide an environment where students can practice applying their knowledge and skills in an ...

Despite decades of effort, pedestrian infrastructure in cities continues to be unsafe or inaccessible to people with disabilities. In this paper, we examine the potential of community-driven digital civics to assess sidewalk accessibility through a ...

Community-engaged learning is an emerging term for a wide spectrum of learning activities that bring together students and community partners in a mutually beneficial way. Service learning is a subcategory of community-engaged learning which ...

Service learning is an experiential pedagogy in which students learn through providing services or products for community partners. Computer and information science students can develop valuable products for community organizations. However, while ...

Many computer and information science educators wish to incorporate experiential education pedagogies such as study abroad, service learning and internships into their courses because of the profound benefits they can provide for students. However, some ...

Participation in service-learning projects that impact society or serve the greater social good has been shown to have a broad range of positive impacts on students, including increased motivation and persistence, improved social outcomes, self-efficacy, ...

In this paper, we describe an innovative design for a multidisciplinary service-learning course on supply chain management in the industrial distribution program housed in the College of Engineering at a large research university in Texas. The purpose of ...

In order to meet the increasing demand for a CS and STEM workforce, expanded CS educational opportunities are being introduced as early as K-12. While many programs exist inside a traditional school structure (e.g, standalone CS courses) out-of-school ...

Service learning projects enable students to work on real-world problems brought by stakeholders that produce real-world benefits. While the value and advantages of involving external stakeholders in student projects have been recognized, very little ...

We established ExCITE (Excellence in Computing and Information Technology Education), a college-level service-learning program with a mission to broaden participation in computer science. It engages minority students in community service projects that ...

Service learning-an educational experience in which students provide service to a community partner while learning content knowledge, professional skills, and critical thinking-can provide significant benefits to students and the community. We present ...

By age 15 girls start to lose interest in STEM, and less than 50% consider a STEM-related career. Providing hands-on internship opportunities has been one of the leading ways to help connect students with exploring computing careers; however, these ...

Service learning in a Computer Science (CS) setting typically involves students applying their expertise on a project for a community partner. These unique learning opportunities are known to be highly beneficial to students. However, a number of ...

Students' participation in relevant service learning can have a unique impact on their institution of higher education, if provided the opportunity. This article explores student-designed sexual misconduct prevention efforts taking place in an ...

Successful nonprofit partnership projects in technical and professional writing courses require alignment between students, the instructor, and nonprofit partners. In content strategy projects, alignment is particularly challenging to establish and ...

Experiential learning posits that learning occurs on the basis of practice; in technology courses this is often practiced as real or near to real life projects. Successful student-led project implementation has multiple definitions in the undergraduate ...

While a capstone experience is an important part of the IT curriculum, effectively managing a large number of projects can be a challenging task for a capstone instructor. This paper describes the authors' approach in building a capstone management ...

Given the focus of professional graduate ICT programs on technical and managerial skills, pedagogical engagement with external organizations tends to be transactional and artifact-centered. This inhibits the students' ability to understand social, ...

Computing often makes headlines for negative social impacts such as data breaches, algorithmic bias, and cyber warfare. The many ways that computing can create social good are similarly powerful but seem to get much less attention. This BoF will explore ...

This report reflects on my experience as an instructor with the iFixit Standard Project in the Introduction to Technical Writing course at Texas Tech University. The iFixit Standard project is a service learning project wherein students develop online ...