Problem solving in community: A necessary shift in CS pedagogy

SIGCSE'08 - Proceedings of the 39th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 210-214

  Pulimood, Sarah Monisha ^a   Wolz, Ursula ^a  

^a The College of New Jersey   (United States)

Author keywords

Curriculum issues; Gender and diversity issues; Pedagogy

Indexed keywords

AUTHENTIC LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS; COMPUTING TECHNOLOGIES; DIVERSE COMMUNITIES; GENDER AND DIVERSITY ISSUES; MULTIDISCIPLINARY PROJECTS; ON DEMANDS; PEDAGOGICAL APPROACHES; PEDAGOGY; REAL PROBLEMS; WORK FORCES;

COMPUTERS; CURRICULA; EDUCATION COMPUTING; TEACHING;

EDUCATION;

EID: 57449106293     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1352135.1352209     Document Type: Conference Paper

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