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Tiêu đề
Weaving computer science into a non-majors science course
Tác giả
Ball L.B.
Năm xuất bản
2014
Source title
2014 Proceedings of the Information Systems Educators Conference, ISECON 2014
Số trích dẫn
0
DOI
Liên kết
Tóm tắt
Service courses can significantly increase student credit hours. In the past, literacy courses could be used for such purposes. As more students enter university with such literacy, the need for courses such as these has essentially vanished. Moreover, many liberal arts departments have dropped a computing-related course as a degree requirement. To increase student credit hours, we have developed a course offered by the Computer Science department that satisfies science requirements. The course, titled “Disasters & Failures”, examines science and engineering primarily through the lens of significant historical disasters. The role of computing in contributing to these failures, and in how to prevent future such events, is studied. Over the past seven years, the course has grown to 200 students per semester. We describe the course, give examples of topics demonstrating how it interweaves computing into science topics, and describe the experiences of students and faculty. ©2014 EDSIG (Education Special Interest Group of the AITP), www.aitp-edsig.org and FITE (Foundation for Information Technology Education), edfoundation.org/.
Từ khóa
Educational case studies; Increasing student enrollment; Pedagogy; University service courses
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Nơi xuất bản
Association of Information Technology Professionals
Hình thức xuất bản
Conference paper
Open Access
Nguồn
Scopus