Overview
- Offers guidance for educators in Higher Education teaching Computer Science
- Includes numerous, varied case studies and practical examples, highlighting a range of successful teaching strategies
- Presents a focus on teaching styles in Higher Education, and a discussion of the importance of developing soft skills and a professional online presence
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Teaching: Examples of Practice
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About this book
There is currently a great emphasis on teaching quality in Higher Education. In the UK, the Teaching Excellence Framework and the National Student Survey have contributed significantly to this focus. Additional support for staff to develop teaching skills has also come from the Higher Education Academy, whose fellowship scheme encourages HE staff to focus on their practice in the classroom.
The growth in the number of students attending university has resulted in a much wider range of learning styles amongst them. Many students do not fit the idealised average of being adept at learning from primarily text-based media. Two further trends are also driving change and innovation in academic staff teaching. The first is the availability of online teaching materials such as MOOCs. The second is the emphasis now given to student postgraduate employability, represented by certain aspects of the Teaching Excellence Framework that require students not only to know information, but alsoto be able to articulate that knowledge and to demonstrate their skills.
With a desire to enable our students to achieve their highest potential, many staff undertake initiatives to facilitate learning that accommodate a wide range of learning styles. This book focuses on approaches to teaching and learning within the discipline of Computer Science. The book consists of a selection of chapters that describe a particular teaching activity or topic within Computing in HE, presented in such a way that other practitioners can adopt and adapt them as a way of helping them to develop their own teaching. It provides a number of practical cases of putting theory into practice when teaching Computer Science to both undergraduate and postgraduate students in Higher Education institutions.
A chapter on the importance of developing soft skills and a professional online presence is also included as an essential part of preparing the students for their future employment.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Jenny Carter is a Subject Area Leader in Computing & Information Systems, in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Huddersfield, UK.
Dr. Michael O'Grady is a Subject Area Leader in Digital Media at the same institution.
Dr. Clive Rosen is Director of Passerelle Systems, an educational consultancy in Higher Education based in Newcastle Under Lyme, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Higher Education Computer Science
Book Subtitle: A Manual of Practical Approaches
Editors: Jenny Carter, Michael O'Grady, Clive Rosen
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98590-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07510-1Published: 20 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-98590-9Published: 21 September 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 244
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 41 illustrations in colour
Topics: Computers and Education, Higher Education, Teaching and Teacher Education, Computation by Abstract Devices