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ICALT
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Teaching Science subjects to Blind Students
Access to the disciplines of science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) for blind and vision impaired people continues to be a problem. The inherently visual nature o...
Donal Fitzpatrick
SIGCSE
2008
ACM
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13 years 4 months ago
Inspiring blind high school students to pursue computer science with instant messaging chatbots
Blind students are an underrepresented group in computer science. In this paper, we describe our experience preparing and leading the computer science track at the National Federa...
Jeffrey P. Bigham, Maxwell B. Aller, Jeremy T. Bru...
ITICSE
2003
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Systematic testing should not be a topic in the computer science curriculum!
In this paper we argue that treating “testing” as an isolated topic is a wrong approach in computer science and software engineering teaching. Instead testing should pervade p...
Henrik Bærbak Christensen
CBMS
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Vicarious Learning and (Virtual) Case-Based Teaching in Health Science Education
This paper describes PATSy, an established interactive case-based system that provides students with access to virtual patients. PATSy has recently been extended by the addition o...
Richard Cox, Jianxiong Pang
SIGCSE
2006
ACM
201views Education» more  SIGCSE 2006»
13 years 10 months ago
Everything I needed to know about teaching I learned in kindergarten: bringing elementary education techniques to undergraduate
By expanding the teaching styles used in computer science classrooms, we can expand the audience of students that enjoy and excel in technology. Rather than focusing on major curr...
Shannon Pollard, Robert C. Duvall