International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Volume 5, Number 1, January 2011
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Impact of Giving Students a Choice of Homework Assignments in an Introductory Computer Science Class
Student assignments have long been an integral part of many university level computer science courses to reinforce material covered in class with practical exercises. For years, researchers have studied ways to improve such student assignments by making them more interesting, applicable, and valuable to the student with a goal of improving learning outcomes by increasing student appeal. One often studied way to improve the learning outcome is by allowing students a choice in assignments. To...
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Steven Fulton United States Air Force Academy
Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
steven.fulton@usafa.edu
My undergraduate degree is in Computer Science from Armstrong Atlantic State University in Savannah, Georgia and I've received an Master of Arts degree from University of Maryland Baltimore County in Education with an emphasis in Instructional Systems Design, and a Master of Science degree from Syracuse University in Information Management. My Doctor of Management degree was awarded in 2009 from the University of Maryland University College. I am currently an assistant professor of computer science at the U.S. Air Force Academy with research interests of Information Assurance, Network Security, Network Management, and Security Education.
Dino SchweitzerUnited States Air Force Academy
Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
dino.schweitzer@usafa.edu
My undergraduate and Master's degree are in computer science from the United States Air Force Academy and Air Force Institute of Technology. I received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Utah. I am currently serving as the Director of the Academy Center for Cyberspace Research, a research center housed within the computer science department at the Air Force Academy. My research interests are computer graphics and visualization, computer science education techniques, and cyber security. My current research projects include the development of interactive classroom teaching tools for cyber security and computer graphics; the security and vulnerabilities associated with mobile computing devices; and a virtual reality immersive display of network traffic data for security visualization.