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Best practices in teaching information technology development

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Amber Settle,

Deborah LaBelle,

Hazem Said,

Sheila S. SiciliaAuthors Info & Claims

SIGITE '12: Proceedings of the 13th annual conference on Information technology education

Pages 113 - 114

https://doi.org/10.1145/2380552.2380588

Published: 11 October 2012 Publication History

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Programming is one of the most fundamental and central topics in the information technology curriculum. Because of its importance it is crucial to understand how to effectively teach development students. In this panel we share best practices for teaching programming to a variety of populations, including freshman, non-majors, and community college students. Various pedagogical approaches including pair programming, studio-based instruction, peer instruction, active learning, cooperative learning, project-based pedagogy, high-impact education practices, and CS Unplugged type activities are included.

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Best practices in teaching information technology development
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Computer science education
        Information science education

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SIGITE '12: Proceedings of the 13th annual conference on Information technology education

October 2012

266 pages

ISBN:9781450314640

DOI:10.1145/2380552

General Chair:
Randy Connolly
Mount Royal University, Canada
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William D. Armitage
University of South Florida, USA

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Association for Computing Machinery

New York, NY, United States

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Published: 11 October 2012

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