Title :
Visualization as a key element in learning
Author :
Fulcher, John A.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Inf. Technol. & Comput. Sci., Wollongong Univ., NSW, Australia
Abstract :
Experience with teaching undergraduate and postgraduate computer science (CS) subjects has shown that students benefit substantially from being able to visualize fundamental topics. Examples are presented from five different CS areas, namely: (i) communications, (ii) parallel computing, (iii) artificial neural networks, (iv) genetic algorithms and (v) data mining. The majority of these examples stemmed from student projects, rather than commercial software products. Accordingly, students benefit twofold from the visually-oriented subject presentations, firstly in facilitating the learning of basic concepts, and secondly in the development of educational software packages as part of their project work
Keywords :
computer science education; courseware; data mining; data visualisation; genetic algorithms; neural nets; parallel processing; teaching; telecommunication; CS areas; artificial neural networks; case studies; communications; data mining; educational software packages; genetic algorithms; parallel computing; pedagogy; postgraduate computer science subjects; student projects; teaching methods; undergraduate; visually-oriented subject presentations; Artificial neural networks; Computer science; Data visualization; Education; Genetic algorithms; Graphics; Intelligent networks; Mathematical model; Parallel processing; Protocols;
Conference_Titel :
TENCON 2001. Proceedings of IEEE Region 10 International Conference on Electrical and Electronic Technology
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7101-1
DOI :
10.1109/TENCON.2001.949637
