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2015
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Breakfast with ICT Employers: What do they want to see in our graduates?
In an increasingly globalised and competitive economy, there is a need to ensure that graduates have the skills, knowledge and attitudes to be not only work ready for today but wo...
Margaret Hamilton, Angela Carbone, Christabel Gons...
ACE
2015
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Designing a Modern IT Curriculum: Including Information Analytics as a Core Knowledge Area
Much has happened in the field of Information Technology since 2008 when ACM published its curriculum recommendation for a four year Undergraduate Degree Program in Information Te...
Magnus Westerlund, Göran Pulkkis
ACE
2015
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Teaching Computational Thinking in K-6: The CSER Digital Technologies MOOC
In recent decades, ICT curriculum in K-10 has typically focussed on ICT as a tool, with the development of digital literacy being the key requirement. Areas such as computer scien...
Katrina Falkner, Rebecca Vivian, Nick Falkner
ACE
2015
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Dynamic evaluation trees for novice C programmers
The dynamic evaluation tree is a method of visualizing expression evaluation that annotates a program’s source code with expression results. It is intended to reduce students’...
Matthew Heinsen Egan, Chris McDonald
ACE
2015
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Quality Assurance using International Curricula and Employer Feedback
1 The focus of this paper is the quality assurance process for the bachelor program in the School of Computer Science at Reykjavik University, which is a combination of outcome- an...
Marta Lárusdóttir, Mats Daniels, Rog...
ACE
2015
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Repository of Wisdom: Automated Support for Composing Programming Exams
This paper presents a macro-level view around exam composition. While previous work known as BABELnot (Lister et. al. 2012 [1]) developed a micro-level classification scheme to co...
Keith Foster, Daryl J. D'Souza, Margaret Hamilton,...
ACE
2015
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Comparative Study on Programmable Robots as Programming Educational Tools
Computational Thinking skills are basic and important to manipulate computers. Currently, several systems exist to provide an effective way to learn programming that use computer...
Shohei Yamazaki, Kazunori Sakamoto, Kiyoshi Honda,...
ACE
2015
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Why Don't More ICT Students Do PhDs?
Compared to many other disciplines, ICT has relatively few students choosing to continue into doctoral studies. We have explored some of the perceived barriers to undertaking doct...
Cally Guerin, Asangi Jayatilaka, Paul R. Calder, A...
ACE
2015
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Mired in the Web: Vignettes from Charlotte and Other Novice Programmers
1 Ahadi and Lister (2013) found that many of their introductory programming students had fallen behind as early as week 3 of semester, and those students often then stayed behind. ...
Donna Teague, Raymond Lister, Alireza Ahadi
ACE
2015
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Computational Thinking, the Notional Machine, Pre-service Teachers, and Research Opportunities
There is general consensus regarding the urgent and pressing need to develop school students' computational thinking abilities, and to help school teachers develop computatio...
Matt Bower, Katrina Falkner