Mihaela Sabin, D. LaBelle, Hiranya Mir, K. Patten, S. Poirier, Seth Reichelson
{"title":"Girls in it: how to develop talent and leverage support","authors":"Mihaela Sabin, D. LaBelle, Hiranya Mir, K. Patten, S. Poirier, Seth Reichelson","doi":"10.1145/2512276.2512310","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2512276.2512310","url":null,"abstract":"The objectives of this panel are to inform the audience about national and regional initiatives developed by the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) to reach out to middle and high school girls; learn from promising experiences in which the panelists have been directly involved; and discuss venues to scale and sustain efforts to increase women's participation in technology careers. Panelists will describe their particular experiences, and discuss ways to utilize the Aspirations in Computing program to increase enrollment and retention of females in computing. A minimum of 30 minutes will be set aside for question and answer.","PeriodicalId":404291,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 14th annual ACM SIGITE conference on Information technology education","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129935034","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Using virtual machines to improve learning and save resources in an introductory IT course","authors":"Geoff Stoker, Todd Arnold, P. Maxwell","doi":"10.1145/2512276.2512287","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2512276.2512287","url":null,"abstract":"Information technology courses often require the use of software and hardware to support classroom learning. These systems can assist in achieving the learning objectives for a course through classroom problems and laboratory exercises. The procurement and maintenance of these systems can be a challenge even for well resourced organizations. In this paper we discuss how virtual machines can relieve organizations of some of their resource burdens while effectively achieving course learning objectives and provide examples of how that is currently done at the United States Military Academy.","PeriodicalId":404291,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 14th annual ACM SIGITE conference on Information technology education","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116447486","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Session details: Paper session H2: games and MOOCs","authors":"Randy W. Connolly","doi":"10.1145/3254721","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3254721","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":404291,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 14th annual ACM SIGITE conference on Information technology education","volume":"99 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130342965","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Partially flipped: experiences using POGIL","authors":"S. Cold","doi":"10.1145/2512276.2512314","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2512276.2512314","url":null,"abstract":"Flipped learning is a general term used to describe several kinds of teaching techniques designed to engage students and inspire deep learning. Flipped learning often means that the lecture is provided in a format available outside of the classroom while the homework or other activities are done in the classroom where students get help from the Instructor or fellow students. [1] When educators decide to start to flip a class, they discover that recording all of the lectures so that they can be streamed online is a daunting task. Many begin by flipping only one or two lectures, creating a partially flipped class to test how well it works. A teaching technique promoted by the National Science Foundation is Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL). POGIL organizes students into teams of four or five team members. Each team member has a well-defined role to play while the team works through a POGIL activity. IT3510 is an Advanced Linux Administration class where POGIL activities were used as a partially flipped teaching technique. Several lessons were learned about implementing POGIL activities in an upper-division Information Technology (IT) course.","PeriodicalId":404291,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 14th annual ACM SIGITE conference on Information technology education","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134417781","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Can you hear me now?: an empirical study on using social media to improve student-instructor communication","authors":"Lei Li, Rong Guo","doi":"10.1145/2512276.2512321","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2512276.2512321","url":null,"abstract":"There are extensive research on the usage and effectiveness of social media in the classrooms. Many of those studies use questionnaires as main research methods. This paper conducts an empirical study on using social media, specifically Facebook and text messaging, to improve student-instructor communication in a distance learning environment. This study records the actual usage of social media tool for a treatment group and compares the students' performance of the treatment group with a control group. This study is a research-in-progress. The research design and implication of the study are discussed in details.","PeriodicalId":404291,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 14th annual ACM SIGITE conference on Information technology education","volume":"85 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134526280","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Leveraging HCI in teaching mobile, \"anytime and everywhere\" IT","authors":"R. Halstead-Nussloch, H. Reichgelt","doi":"10.1145/2512276.2512295","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2512276.2512295","url":null,"abstract":"Within our IT program, we have been working on constructive ways to teach HCI for the past five years; so, when the mobile revolution caught fire, we already had been working on better ways to incorporate HCI-related learning outcomes in our curricula. In the course of this activity, we have identified leverage points to meaningfully teach the important HCI concepts and skills listed below. These points provide a means for those interested in effective IT administration, accreditation and teaching to manage the increasing importance, complexity, and methodological diffusion of HCI in the mobile environment. This paper compiles and assesses the top seven of these leverage points. HCI topics required in the curriculum include: Human Factors HCI Aspects of Application Domains Human-Centered Evaluation Developing Effective Interfaces Accessibility Emerging Technologies Human-Centered Computing","PeriodicalId":404291,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 14th annual ACM SIGITE conference on Information technology education","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133902897","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Session details: Paper session B2: demographics","authors":"K. Patten","doi":"10.1145/3254713","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3254713","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":404291,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 14th annual ACM SIGITE conference on Information technology education","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114039112","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Diversity in the game industry: is outreach the solution?","authors":"Amber Settle, Monica Mcgill, Adrienne Decker","doi":"10.1145/2512276.2512283","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2512276.2512283","url":null,"abstract":"Over the last decade, the International Game Developers Association (IGDA) has considered the lack of diversity in the game industry workforce a quality of life issue. Using the results of our recent study on demographics of undergraduate students in game degree programs, we compare our data against data reported in the 2005 IGDA Quality of Life survey. The most significant result of this study is that gender diversity in the current group of undergraduate students studying games is statistically the same as that reported within the industry seven years ago, with an approximate 8 to 1 ratio of males to females. The number of black and Asian students was higher than in the industry survey, and the number of Hispanic and other ethnic and racial groups was only slightly lower. Our data shows that there is a greater diversity in sexual orientation and of reported disabilities than in the industry survey results. We describe effective initiatives for recruiting and retaining women in related fields and suggest that similar efforts might address the imbalance in the game industry.","PeriodicalId":404291,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 14th annual ACM SIGITE conference on Information technology education","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127795620","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Using a low-cost open source hardware development platform in teaching young students programming skills","authors":"Lawrence W. Hill, S. Ciccarelli","doi":"10.1145/2512276.2512289","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2512276.2512289","url":null,"abstract":"The teaching of programming skills to young students is often described by those educators involved as problematic at best. Student issues like mathematical maturity, readiness for complex thought, basic problem solving skills, short attention span especially related to the boredom of traditional programming teaching methodologies, and the lack of exciting problems and their solutions with respect to programming assignments contribute to the angst of many a programming instructor. A small fraction of students who \"were just made for programming\" always seem to succeed at whatever programming problem is given to them. However, a majority of students, especially precollege and college freshmen tend to have difficulty in overcoming these issues. It is with that observation that something new, in terms of programming pedagogy, needed to be investigated by this paper's authors. An ideal opportunity requiring successful programming instruction for 7-12 graders in the local metropolitan area presented itself in the winter of 2012. The students were involved in a statewide competition where groups of students self-selected into project options offered by various sponsoring institutions. Under the \"Technology\" choice heading of the state program, the student team and the instructor agreed to program a microprocessor to send messages in International Morse Code. The object of the exercise was to learn basic programming skills and to apply them to solving a problem. The hook was to do something brand new the students had never engaged in, keeping their attention on the end goal, and to see the immediate real-time results of some programming effort along the development cycle as the completed final program took form. The effort was a resounding success; the students learned in a few Saturday morning sessions more about programming than the authors have experienced over weeks of effort in traditional programming classes at the college freshman level.","PeriodicalId":404291,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 14th annual ACM SIGITE conference on Information technology education","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116939329","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The changing face of information technology","authors":"S. Zilora, D. Bogaard, Jim Leone","doi":"10.1145/2512276.2512288","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2512276.2512288","url":null,"abstract":"Information technology as an academic discipline began in the early 90's. Since then, there have been many changes in how industry views the discipline. Today, information technology is about large-scale operations. This may be manifested as supporting enterprise services, working with big data, or supporting massive multi-user systems. In this paper, we describe a new curriculum that is based upon the original work in the \"2008 Curriculum Guidelines for Undergraduate Degree Programs in Information Technology\" document, but addresses modern information technology demands. We discuss a new curricular model for teaching information technology and also the addition of analytics as an overarching theme for the curriculum.","PeriodicalId":404291,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 14th annual ACM SIGITE conference on Information technology education","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123397471","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}