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DIGRA
2005
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
B.Sc. Computer Game Development ... Why not?
We were motivated to consider proposing/adopting a new curriculum by the decrease in student enrolments currently experienced by our computing science programs. This requirement f...
Libero Ficocelli, David Gregg
SIGUCCS
2003
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
Computing competencies: ensuring student success
St. Edward’s University has developed a web-based Computer Competency Program ensuring one standard of competency for a diverse student population. Over the past decade faculty ...
Gloria Gonzales-Dholakia
SIGCSE
2008
ACM
116views Education» more  SIGCSE 2008»
15 years 4 months ago
Socially relevant computing
In this paper, we introduce socially relevant computing as a new way to reinvigorate interest in computer science. Socially relevant computing centers on the use of computation to...
Michael Buckley, John Nordlinger, Devika Subramani...
CORR
2004
Springer
180views Education» more  CORR 2004»
15 years 4 months ago
Alchemi: A .NET-based Grid Computing Framework and its Integration into Global Grids
: Computational grids that couple geographically distributed resources are becoming the de-facto computing platform for solving large-scale problems in science, engineering, and co...
Akshay Luther, Rajkumar Buyya, Rajiv Ranjan, Sriku...
ACMIDC
2010
15 years 8 months ago
BeeSim: leveraging wearable computers in participatory simulations with young children
New technologies have enabled students to become active participants in computational simulations of dynamic and complex systems (called Participatory Simulations), providing a &q...
Kylie A. Peppler, Joshua A. Danish, Benjamin Zaitl...