Overview
- Presents a range of general problem-solving strategies that transcend disciplines
- Highlights the importance of introspection and the value of meta-level reasoning in the problem-solving process
- Examines the development of the student in terms of their understanding of knowledge and epistemological progress
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science (UTICS)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Motivation and Teaching
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Tools, Tips, and Strategies
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Challenges
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Reviews
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“The book’s approach is to present many problems, and for each one, discuss how to present it to students and how to help them learn in the course of working on it. … this book does a very nice job of bringing together an impressive collection of puzzles and presenting them to teachers in a manner that supports their use in an undergraduate classroom.” (S. L. Tanimoto, Computing Reviews, November, 2014)Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Dr. Edwin F. Meyer is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Baldwin Wallace University, Berea, OH, USA.
Dr. Nickolas Falkner is a Senior Lecturer and Associate Dean of Information Technology in the School of Computer Science at the University of Adelaide, Australia.
Dr. Raja Sooriamurthi is an Associate Teaching Professor in the Information Systems Program at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Dr. Zbigniew Michalewicz is an Emeritus Professor of the School of Computer Science at the University of Adelaide, Australia. He also holds Professor positions at the Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences and at the Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Guide to Teaching Puzzle-based Learning
Authors: Edwin F. Meyer III, Nickolas Falkner, Raja Sooriamurthi, Zbigniew Michalewicz
Series Title: Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-6476-0
Publisher: Springer London
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4471-6475-3Published: 04 August 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4471-6476-0Published: 23 July 2014
Series ISSN: 1863-7310
Series E-ISSN: 2197-1781
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 345
Number of Illustrations: 98 b/w illustrations, 19 illustrations in colour
Topics: Computers and Education, Science Education, Teaching and Teacher Education