In this tip we describe a proposed extension to the BlueJ IDE to encapsulate knowledge of patterns in the IDE and to help students explore them and learn how to make use of them.

In this paper we suggest introducing undecidability to students in relatively early stages of their studies, in a way we used succefully in recent semesters.

In this paper, we recommend using "real world" problems, instead of "toy problems", in CS1 to enhance the students' motivation.

This presentation describes a project for a standard undergraduate human-computer interaction (HCI) course that incorporates issues related to users who are disabled. It is part of the 2-year project "Integrating Assistive Technology into an ...

This demonstration will illustrate the use of existing and proposed tools in CITIDEL for finding existing resources to integrate into a course and for developing well structured descriptions of class and laboratory activities for sharing with the ...

We introduce a general tool for creating small learning scenarios (Learning Objects) that can be used by teachers and students for teaching/learning Java.

Teaching skills for problem solving is usually accomplished on the basis of good examples of problems and corresponding sound solutions. By studying well-constructed examples the student learns how to analyze and decompose non-elementary problems and ...

Jeliot is a family of program animation systems [1]. It has been successfully used to improve the teaching of intro- ductory programming by supplying a concrete language in which to explain programming structures and concepts [2]. Jeliot 3 [4] retains the ...

Grand Valley State University has recently created a new Masters program in Medical & Bioinformatics. The M.S. degree, along with related degrees in Biostatistics and Biotechnology, are components of the "Professional Science Masters" development and ...

This paper outlines some of the relevant components of our first offering of the Programming with Robots course and ideas we have for enhancing the "GenEdness" of the course.

It is already known that the learning process can be accelerated with the mixture of theoretical classes and experimental work. This paper describes an interesting experiment with that combination in the teaching of computer architecture for Ph.D. ...

In this work we focus on an experiment held at an automata class room to test the effectiveness of using simulators. We developed our own simulator. We also tested two other existing simulators to find whether simulators are useful as a teaching tool in ...

This paper describes our work on establishing an on-line learning community to facilitate the interactions of the student (teams) in their group projects. It is illustrated with a Portal in the capstone project of our Bachelor of Software Engineering (...

We describe several National Science Foundation programs that support educational efforts in computer science.

This paper reviews the authors' experiences of addressing professional issues with postgraduate computing students (at both masterate and doctorate levels).

This presentation discusses and demonstrates the advantages and limitations of a range of object persistence strategies for use in student projects.