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HICSS
2002
IEEE
153views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2002»
13 years 11 months ago
Technology Supported Learning Applied to an Innovative, Integrated Curriculum for First-Year Engineering Majors
In September of 1998, the College of Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth piloted an innovative, integrated, first-year curriculum. It dramatically changed 31 ...
Paul J. Fortier, Emily Fowler, Raymond N. Laoulach...
SIGCSE
2006
ACM
172views Education» more  SIGCSE 2006»
14 years 24 days ago
Computing in context: integrating an embedded computing project into a course on ethical and societal issues
A hands-on embedded computing project is introduced into an undergraduate social sciences course. In the pilot module, nine student teams created working prototypes, using the tec...
Fred G. Martin, Sarah Kuhn
EDUTAINMENT
2009
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
AdMoVeo: A Robotic Platform for Teaching Creative Programming to Designers
Designing intelligent products, systems and related services require the designers to be able to integrate technology in their designs. Among other skills, programming is the key f...
Sjriek Alers, Jun Hu
CHI
2010
ACM
13 years 3 months ago
Expressive robots in education: varying the degree of social supportive behavior of a robotic tutor
Teaching is inherently a social interaction between teacher and student. Despite this knowledge, many educational tools, such as vocabulary training programs, still model the inte...
Martin Saerbeck, Tom Schut, Christoph Bartneck, Ma...
SIGCSE
2003
ACM
137views Education» more  SIGCSE 2003»
14 years 3 days ago
Measuring the effectiveness of robots in teaching computer science
We report the results of a year-long experiment in the use of robots to teach computer science. Our data set compares results from over 800 students on identical tests from both r...
Barry S. Fagin, Laurence D. Merkle