TY - CHAP
T1 - Where Programming Skills Meet the Social Needs
AU - Ng, Peter H.F.
AU - Chiu, Memory W.H.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Assistive technology
KW - Computational thinking
KW - Computer-aided learning
KW - Non-major students
KW - Special education needs
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85083745310&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-981-13-0448-4_10
DO - 10.1007/978-981-13-0448-4_10
M3 - Chapter in an edited book (as author)
AN - SCOPUS:85083745310
T3 - Quality of Life in Asia
SP - 165
EP - 184
BT - Quality of Life in Asia
PB - Springer
ER -