How much impact can be made in a week? Designing effective international service learning projects for computing

Grace Ngai; Stephen C.F. Chan

doi:10.1145/2676723.2677267

How much impact can be made in a week? Designing effective international service learning projects for computing

Grace Ngai, Stephen C.F. Chan

Research output: Chapter in book / Conference proceeding › Conference article published in proceeding or book › Academic research › peer-review

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Abstract

Service learning has been gaining attention in recent years. It has been established as an effective method to teach students a variety of concepts that are not easily taught in the classroom, and much effort has gone into making service learning accessible and relevant to computer science students. This paper investigates a popular mode of computing-related service learning - offshore projects that seek to introduce information and computing technologies (ICTs) into a beneficiary population. Based on multiple years of experience working with ICTs in service learning, the authors examine the impact on students and beneficiaries through several critical questions, and draw conclusions and recommendations on good practices for designing offshore service learning projects for computing students.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	SIGCSE 2015 - Proceedings of the 46th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages	645-650
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450329668
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2676723.2677267
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2015
Event	46th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, SIGCSE 2015 - Kansas City, United States Duration: 4 Mar 2015 → 7 Mar 2015

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Conference	46th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, SIGCSE 2015
Country/Territory	United States
City	Kansas City
Period	4/03/15 → 7/03/15

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International projects
Service-learning

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Education
Computer Science (miscellaneous)

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Ngai, G & Chan, SCF 2015, How much impact can be made in a week? Designing effective international service learning projects for computing. in SIGCSE 2015 - Proceedings of the 46th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, pp. 645-650, 46th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, SIGCSE 2015, Kansas City, United States, 4/03/15. https://doi.org/10.1145/2676723.2677267

How much impact can be made in a week? Designing effective international service learning projects for computing. / Ngai, Grace; Chan, Stephen C.F.
SIGCSE 2015 - Proceedings of the 46th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2015. p. 645-650.

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