Computer science students come from the gamer generation. A generation accustomed to receiving instant feedback and constant reward for action. This expectation creates tension between traditional assessment models and the learning style of the gamers taking our courses. In this paper we discuss how game design principles can be used as part of modern instructional design. We then present two c...

Over the past few years the World Wide Web or the Internet has made its impact on almost all fields of human life, from business and entertainment to shopping and communicating with people all over the globe. Virtual Reality Modeling Language or VRML for short is a tool specifically designed for creating 3D virtual worlds on the World Wide Web. These synthetic worlds give us the ability to visu...

Education, identified as one of the primary activities of the Prevention through Design (PtD) initiative, is a major factor needed to make PtD successful. The educational requirements vary within each sector. Therefore, an education strategy should be developed with an overall approach and set of resources, which is then tailored to each sector. The key themes of the PtD Education Functional Ar...

In the last years, the growing of the Internet have opened the door to new ways of learning and education methodologies. Furthermore, the appearance of different tools and applications has increased the need for interoperable as well as reusable learning contents, teaching resources and educational tools (Wiley, 2000). Driven by this new environment, several metadata specifications describing l...

Serious games have proven to be a useful instrument to engage learners and increase motivation. Nevertheless, a broadly accepted, practical instructional design approach to serious games does not exist. In this paper, we introduce the use of an instructional design model that has not been applied to serious games yet, and has some advantages compared to other design approaches. We present the c...

To teach the design of algorithms in an algorithmic GIS course, it is suggested to complement lectures with a particular type of project. How such a project can be set up is discussed, as well as a number of interesting results from the projects themselves. The projects address relative position of two regions, island group labeling, non-contiguous area cartograms, urban street network generali...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has been collaborating since 2010 with the Singapore Ministry of Education to help develop the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). One element of this collaboration, the Global Leadership Program (GLP), aims to provide SUTD students with the opportunity to interact with the MIT community and experience MIT’s academic culture. Dur...

This paper discusses approaches for providing chemical engineering students a contemporary experience in product and process design. Current trends and issues in chemical engineering education are reviewed, as well as the interaction between business decision-making and product and process design. Then, the Stage-Gate product development process is examined as utilized by product and process en...