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CITRIS Research Exchange: University of California Web-based Instruction for Science and Engineering

  • November 1, 2006: 12:00pm - 1:00pm
  • Contact: Yvette Subramanian
  • Location: 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, the Maria & Dado Banatao Conference Room, UC Berkeley

"University of California Web-based Instruction for Science and Engineering"

by Michael Clancy, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at UC Berkeley,

12:00 p.m. on November 1 in 290 HMMB, UC Berkeley

Part of the CITRIS Research Exchange at UC Berkeley. The complete schedule for the fall semester is online at RE-fall2006.

 

Abstract:
The UC-WISE project (University of California Web-based Instruction for Science and Engineering) aims

*  to provide technology and curricula for laboratory-based higher education courses that incorporate online facilities for collaboration, inquiry learning, and assessment, and to investigate the most effective ways of integrating this technology into our courses;
*  to allow instructors to customize courses, prototype new course elements, and collect review comments from experienced course developers.

As part of this project, we have developed several complete lab-based courses that trade lecture and discussion time for hands-on lab time. These courses include CS 3L ("Introduction to Symbolic Programming"), CS 4 ("Introduction to Computing for Engineers"), and CS 61BL ("Data Structures and Programming Methodology").

In this talk, we describe these courses in more detail. We also report on what we've learned about lab-based instruction, and outline our educational research goals and plans for technology development to support them.

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