Collaboration across the curriculum: A disciplined approach todeveloping team skills

SIGCSE'12 - Proceedings of the 43rd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 277-282

  Coleman, Ben ^a   Lang, Matthew ^a  

^a MORAVIAN COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

collaboration; communication; curriculum; teamwork

Indexed keywords

CAPSTONE EXPERIENCE; COLLABORATION; COLLABORATION SKILLS; COMPUTER SCIENCE CURRICULA; COMPUTER SCIENCE STUDENTS; LIBERAL ARTS; REAL-WORLD EXPERIENCE; TEAM SKILLS; TEAMWORK; TECHNICAL COURSE;

COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER SCIENCE; STUDENTS; TEACHING; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS;

CURRICULA;

EID: 84858957920     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2157136.2157220     Document Type: Conference Paper

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