It is well known by the educational community that active learning has a greater impact on
the effectiveness of the learning process than other methods. It has long been recognized …

Due to a visible gap in K-12 education that doesn't address the importance of imparting
technology literacy, project-based learning and transdisciplinary educational activities, there …

In this paper, we describe some of our experiences in incorporating LEGO MindStorms into
an introductory programming course. There are three distinguishing features of this course …

It is difficult for us to teach the introduction course of programming to beginners just starting
their college life. What is particularly hard to do is to provide them with learning motivation so …

Object-orientation (OO) is a key concept of current software development approaches. Most
of the students, who start their studies in the field of computer science, have no prior …

Education in the field of computer programming is a challenging task, in particular when
some complex issues are introduced for non-computer science students. A number of …

Robotics is a functional approach for learning basic concepts of computing. In this role, it has
been successfully used in introductory classes of Computer Science and Information …

In this paper the author proposes a case study of a freshmen introduction to engineering
design course using LEGO Mindstorm NXT and analyzes the survey results of the course …

This paper discusses a four-year study that examined student evaluation of the integration of
the Lego MindStorms RCX platform across a computing sciences curriculum at a mid-size …

The need for technologies to building high quality software faster and cheaper has led to the
advances in software development techniques such as software component, object …