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Integrating project-based learning (such as class projects, capstones, or internships) into a Computer Science degree helps students apply what they have learned in lectures and homework. Often, these projects involve group work, but ensuring all ...

Community college students cite career advancement as their top reason for enrolling, with over 70% of first-year students expecting to participate in an internship as part of their college experience. However, surveys indicate only between 10% and 25% ...

Over and above technical skills, software development graduates need to also poses team-based skills, such as, leadership, oral communication and project management by the time they graduate from tertiary institutions. In order to fulfil this ...

Feedback involves dialogic processes whereby learners make sense of information from various sources and use it to enhance their work or learning strategies. This is an essential catalyst for learning. However, it takes work to achieve, particularly in ...

Capstone courses in undergraduate software engineering are a critical final milestone for students. These courses allow students to create a software solution and demonstrate the knowledge they accumulated in their degrees. However, a typical capstone ...

Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) projects operate transparently, providing excellent educational opportunities for computing students to acquire and practice both technical and softer skills that are in high demand. Humanitarian Free and Open Source ...

Undergraduate students in all disciplines sometimes struggle to see the connections between what they learn in the classroom and how it will be used in practice. Capstone courses, internships, and co-op experiences can help students bridge this gap by ...

The Internet of Things (IoT) content and curricula is a recently emerged trend for computer science and software engineering educators. IoT as a paradigm is often described as an all-encompassing new phenomenon covering homes, industries, governments, ...

The necessity and benefits of broadening participation in computing and the roles that computing programs must play in addressing this challenge have been well documented. Elevating the social value of computing has been advocated as an approach to ...

Interest in data science education and degree programs has rapidly expanded over the past several years. An integral part of many degree programs is a capstone experience, where students complete a major research or real-world project at the culmination ...

New approaches to problem-solving through crowdsourcing offer great potential for project-based learning opportunities in higher education. This experience report details how students in three upper-division courses were exposed to an open design ...

A key element in many computing and engineering capstone courses is a team or individual project. The project is often open-ended, requiring students to embrace ambiguity, consider constraints such as time, tools, and finances, and create one or more ...

Work integrated learning and professional practice skills are fundamental to computer science education, in addition to forming a requirement for professional body accreditation of courses. The Australian National University (ANU) offers internship ...

Engaging students is at times challenging, especially when course assignments revolve around tedious work that is not applicable beyond the classroom. One way to prepare students who are about to graduate is the Capstone course, which often focuses on ...

This talk discusses the preparation to design a newly required capstone course as part of a larger curriculum update in an IT degree program at a large Midwestern university. To ensure a quality experience for students, the course is being developed ...

We describe our experience teaching an intensive capstone course in which pairs of students build the hardware and software for a remote-controller quad-rotor aircraft (i.e., a quadcopter or "drone'') from scratch in one 10-week quarter. The course ...

This paper presents the result of a multi-year effort to incorporate Internet of Things (IoT) into projects of the Information Technology senior capstone class at Brigham Young University. Over the past eight years, the instructors and department ...

There is a gap between the abstract concepts taught in the classroom and the skills needed for students to succeed once they join the workplace. The Undergraduate Capstone Open Source Projects (UCOSP) program was developed to narrow this gap by enabling ...

Capstone design courses are field-based courses in which students work on real-world industry-sponsored projects. The structure of engineering capstone design courses varies between institutions as well as within an institution in the context of faculty ...

This paper presents a two-semester capstone experience successfully employed over three years within a CS department of just four faculty members faced with growing enrollment. This year long capstone experience is a significant overhaul of an earlier ...