IT and Environment General Education Course Design and Teaching - Lessons Learned

Author

Krishnamoorthy, Sriram

Author_Institution

Comput. Sci., Framingham State Univ., Framingham, MA, USA

fYear

2013

fDate

24-26 June 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

8

Abstract

We, human beings, depend on other species on earth for our survival. Maintaining a sustainable and safe environment for all species including human beings is essential. Information Technologies and Systems (ITSs) provide help as well as harm in this effort. Current and future generations of people must have knowledge about green environment and practice to achieve and maintain it. With this in mind the author has designed the course, "IT and Environment" as a general education course for IT, IS, CS as well as for all other students at Framingham State University during 2011. He has offered it during the summer of 2012 as an online course for the first time. This paper describes the course as it was designed and offered and the lessons learned from it.

Keywords

courseware; educational courses; educational institutions; green computing; teaching; CS students; Framingham State University students; IS students; IT students; IT-and-Environment general education course design; IT-and-Environment general education course teaching; ITS; green environment; information technologies and systems; online course design; Global warming; Government; Green products; Information technology; Materials; Sociology; Statistics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Science and Applications (ICISA), 2013 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Suwon

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-0602-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICISA.2013.6579487

Filename

6579487