Evolution of STEM-Driven Computer Science Education
The Perspective of Big Concepts
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Overall Evaluation of This Book Concepts and Approaches
This chapter summarises the book’s ideas, approaches, and outcomes by presenting (i) the overall contribution of the book regarding methodological, scientific, technological, and other aspects; (ii) re-evaluat...
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Context and Model for Writing This Book: An Idea of Big Concepts
This chapter is introductive. It introduces and explains the term Big Concepts (BCs), outlines the broad context to construct the evolutionary model for change, and motivates the book’s idea and content. The m...
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Enforcing STEM-Driven CS Education Through Personalisation
This chapter discusses a generic structure of personalised learning content identified as Learning Objects (LOs) in three categories: component-based LO, generative LO, and smart LO. The latter is a combination o...
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Speech Recognition Technology in K–12 STEM-Driven Computer Science Education
This chapter presents a methodology for introducing speech recognition (SR) technology in K–12 STEM-driven CS education. Three tasks (Task 1, Task 2, and Task 3) are under investigation, though to a different ...
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Enforcing STEM-Driven CS Education Through Collaborative Learning
This Chapter discusses collaborative learning through competition-based learning (CBL), such as robot contests, internationally recognised as the First Lego League (FLL) in informal learning. This topic covers tw...
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Multi-stage Prototy** for Introducing IoT Concepts: A Case Study
This chapter describes implementation issues of the educational IoT using the theoretical background discussed in the previous chapter. The essential contribution of this chapter is (i) a systemic analysis of ...
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A Vision for Introducing AI Topics: A Case Study
This chapter is the introductory chapter to AI. It describes a vision for introducing AI into STEM-driven CS education. This vision includes (i) background and key (general) AI concepts, (ii) a framework for i...
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Models for the Development and Assessment of Integrated STEM (ISTEM) Skills: A Case Study
This chapter introduces the concept of Integrated STEM-driven CS skills (shortly ISTEM-CS skills) and defines it as ISTEM-CS skills = STEM skills + Metrics for Skills Assessment. We refer to STEM skills as a comp...
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Personal Generative Libraries for Personalised Learning: A Case Study
With the ever-growing types and amount of educational content, its retrieval from conventional digital libraries to ensure the specific learner’s needs, e.g., for personalised learning or course specificity, e...
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Introduction to Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning
This chapter presents a methodology for introducing artificial neural networks (ANNs) and machine learning (ML) algorithms in K–12 STEM-driven CS education. The content of this chapter consists of the followin...
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Methodological Aspects of Educational Internet of Things
This chapter discusses the Internet of Things (IoT). There are many announcements regarding this technology to support education, especially for administrative tasks in both university and K-12 settings. The e...
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Introducing Data Science Concepts into STEM-Driven Computer Science Education
This chapter focuses on Data and Data Science (DS) due to their importance. The other reason is the coherence and relationship of DS concepts with the IoT. Data appears in three formats (structured, semi-struc...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Designing MOOC Based on the Framework for Teacher Professional Development in STEAM
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) can be especially useful in the Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics (STEAM) field to provide a large number of teachers with appropriate content for their...
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Integration of IoT Concepts into STEAM-Driven Computer Science Education
Internet of things (IoT) is rapidly changing STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Math) education where sensors and devices are connected and becoming a challenge for computing and communication. Sinc...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Personal Generative Libraries for Smart Computer Science Education
The difficulties of retrieving the educational content from conventional digital libraries for personalised learning (PL) are well known. In this paper, to overcome those issues and enforce learning performanc...
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Smart Devices and Educational Robotics as Technology for STEM Knowledge
This chapter deals with integrative aspects of STEM in CS education from the technological perspective. Here, we focus on the available platforms of smart devices, mainly educational robots, and discuss the wa...
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Agent-Based GLOs/SLOs for STEM
This chapter deals with the problem on how to enforce additionally the smart capabilities of the generative learning objects (GLOs) by connecting them with agent-based technology. We consider two aspects of th...
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A Vision for Introducing STEM into CS Education at School
This chapter aims at showing on how it is possible to introduce and integrate the STEM paradigm into CS education by presenting a vision of the whole approach. We define this vision through the STEM-driven con...
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A Methodological Background for STEM-Driven Reuse-Enhanced CS Education
In this chapter, we present a thorough analysis of variability-related research from two perspectives, i.e. software engineering and educational domains. On this basis, we introduce the concept of STEM learnin...
