Regardless of the course topic, every instructor in a computing field endeavors to engage their students in deep problem-solving and critical thinking. One of the specific learning outcomes throughout our computer science curriculum is the development of independent, capable problem solving – and we believe good pedagogy can bring such about. Our experiences indicate to us that students improve...

We can adapt existing techniques for the statistical modeling of music to the modeling of the quality of musical performance, resulting in a fine-grained statistical understanding of ’hardness’ in music performance. This drives AI-assisted applications for improving skill. We present modeling results using various probabilistic models to model performance in the simplified setting of rhythm games.

Massive open online courses (MOOCs) are being used across the world to provide millions of learners with access to education. Many who begin these courses complete them successfully, or to their own satisfaction, but the high numbers who do not finish remain a subject of concern. In 2013, a team from Stanford University analyzed engagement patterns on three MOOCs run on the Coursera platform. T...

Successful communication between a teacher and a student is at the core of pedagogy. A well known example of a pedagogical dialog is 'Meno', a socratic lesson of geometry in which a student learns (or 'discovers') how to double the area of a given square 'in essence, a demonstration of Pythagoras' theorem. In previous studies we found that after engaging in the dialog participants can be divide...

Introduction The United States is a diverse country with constantly changing demographics. In 1980, the U.S. was 83.1 percent White, 11.7 percent Black and 6.4 percent Hispanic. Over a quarter of a century later, the U.S. Census documents that 75.0 percent of the population of the United States is White, 12.4 percent is Black or African American, and 15.4 percent is Hispanic or Latino (U.S. Dep...

In this article, I tried to reflect the necessity of acquired knowledge of every teacher concerning pedagogy to perform in his/her teaching profession so effectively. The word teaching is a simple word but its meaning or significant is not so and the term effective teaching demands various integrated activities in teaching-learning system. Pedagogy is the art and as well as science of teaching....