Challenging students software skills to learn hardware based courses

Author

Stolikj, Milosh ; Ristov, Sashko ; Ackovska, Nevena

Author_Institution

Inst. of Inf., Ss. Cyril & Methodius Univ., Skopje, Macedonia

fYear

2011

fDate

27-30 June 2011

Firstpage

339

Lastpage

344

Abstract

This paper describes the evolution of a hardware course in a software oriented curriculum. It explains the problems that students taking this course experienced in the past. Furthermore, it presents the improvements to the course curriculum and proposes a new teaching methodology, as well as the results of its enforcement. All these changes lead to the overall improvement of the course quality: student satisfaction and interest, increased number of completed hardware projects and significant improvement in grade distribution.

Keywords

computer aided instruction; educational courses; software engineering; student experiments; course quality; hardware based courses; software oriented curriculum; student satisfaction; students software skills; teaching methodology; Computer architecture; Education; Hardware; Materials; Microcontrollers; Programming; Software; Hardware education; computer science; embeded systems; hardware based courses; teaching approaches;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Technology Interfaces (ITI), Proceedings of the ITI 2011 33rd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Dubrovnik

ISSN

1330-1012

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-897-6

Electronic_ISBN

1330-1012

Type

conf

Filename

5974045