Interactive Computer-Centered Instructions for Science and Engineering Education

Truly Interactive Textbooks for Computer Science Education

The dream of an electronic textbook has been actively pursued for at least two decades. Goals include (i) improving exposition through a richer collection of technologies than are available through print textbooks, and (ii) increase student engagement with the material, in order to get them to learn at a higher level in Bloom’s taxonomy (Naps et al., 2002). Instead of merely viewing material, w...

An Information Security Education Initiative for Engineering and Computer Science

This paper puts forward a case for an educational initiative in information security at both the undergraduate and graduate levels Its focus is on the need for such education the desired educational outcomes and how the outcomes may be assessed A basic thesis of this paper is that the goals methods and evaluation techniques of information and computer security are consistent with and supportive...

Designing an Effective Interactive E-book for Computer Science Education

Informatics: Contextualizing Computer Science and Software Engineering Education

Bio: Debra J. Richardson is the Ted and Janice Smith Family Foundation Dean and Professor of Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California at Irvine. She received her PhD in Computer and Information Science at the University of Massachusetts in 1981. She joined the UCI faculty in 1987. Dr. Richardson pioneered research in “specification-based testing”, ...

Experiences with the UWTester in Computer Science and Engineering Education

Teaching students the complete process of circuit design, simulation, implementation, test and debug is a daunting task. Even though design description tools and circuit compilers have kept up with the increasing levels of integration found in current implementation media such as FPGAs and microcontrollers, it has become increasingly difficult for students to test and debug the complex hardware...