Where Programming Skills Meet the Social Needs

Peter H.F. Ng, Memory W.H. Chiu

Research output: Chapter in book / Conference proceedingChapter in an edited book (as author)Teaching and learningpeer-review

4 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

This chapter describes Technology Beyond Borders, a service-learning course offered by the Department of Computing. The course, which is open to all students, focuses on using programming skills to meet social needs. In 2016 and 2017, the project centered on the development of computer-aided edutainment products for special education needs children. The projects and the collaborating partners were carefully chosen so as to achieve maximal learning impact for our students while at the same time fulfilling a needed service that is not currently met by the commercial sector. Analyses of our students’ products show that even though all of these are undergraduate students and many of them are not from computer science or engineering, they are able to develop a product that works well and can be deployed in situ for real use and that the design of the course and project helped to address many of the issues with motivation and engagement that were witnessed in previous similar courses.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationQuality of Life in Asia
PublisherSpringer
Pages165-184
Number of pages20
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2019

Publication series

NameQuality of Life in Asia
Volume12
ISSN (Print)2211-0550
ISSN (Electronic)2211-0569

Keywords

  • Assistive technology
  • Computational thinking
  • Computer-aided learning
  • Non-major students
  • Special education needs

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Public Administration
  • Demography
  • Development
  • Education

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