Teaching and Learning Computer Science at Al Baha University, Saudi Arabia: Insights from a Staff Development Course

Author

Berglund, Anders ; Pears, Arnold ; Nylen, Aletta ; Ahmad, Farooq ; Alghamdi, Bader ; Alghamdi, Khalid ; Alhabish, Ahmed ; Aljoufi, Abdullah ; Alzahrani, Eidah ; Alzahrani, Rami ; Aldmour, Ismat ; Athama, Areej ; Alsadoon, Hamada Shihab ; Budiarto, Rahmat

Author_Institution

Dept. of IT, Uppsala Univ., Uppsala, Sweden

fYear

2015

fDate

9-12 April 2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

In this special session we meet a set of projects in computer science and engineering education at a university in Saudi Arabia. They are the product of a pedagogical development course ran in collaboration with a Swedish university during the academic year 2013/2014. The projects reflect the local situation, with its possibilities and challenges, and suggest steps to take, in the local environment, to enhance education. As such it is a unique document that brings insights from computer science and engineering education into the international literature.

Keywords

computer science education; educational courses; educational institutions; engineering education; teaching; Al Baha University; Saudi Arabia university; Swedish university; computer science education; computer science learning; computer science teaching; education enhancement; engineering education; local environment; pedagogical development course; staff development course; Collaboration; Computer science; Computer science education; Engineering education; Ethics; Scholarships; Saudi Arabia; computer science education; learning and teaching; staff development;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Learning and Teaching in Computing and Engineering (LaTiCE), 2015 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Taipei

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LaTiCE.2015.50

Filename

7126222