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Edward F. Gehringer, North Carolina State University
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they are writing on. It gives them experience inorganizing their thoughts for their peers, which in itself can lead to gains in writing ability[3]. Writing for peers differs from writing for an “expert” audience as students normally do,because peers cannot be expected to understand the material unless it is well explained. Itteaches students to “find truth” on the Web, by making inferences based on reading multiplesources and evaluating their respective claims.While students may not immediately appreciate the pedagogical benefits of wiki textbooks,they do understand their price advantage. The idea of a free textbook has instant appeal. Ifstudents are asked to pay for a textbook, then they should reap some benefit from it
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Carlos R. Morales, Purdue University, West Lafayette
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the entire production process. At the center of this process would be therequirements for a quality peer review publications.The group started by setting up a process that tackled the review process for the book and thenwriting some custom software to implement the process (see Figure 1). In addition, the group Page 22.476.2adopted some practices from the corporate training arena. Figure 1. ProcessToward the goals of creating the most effective instructional contents, the group decided toinstitute a publishing process similar to that founds at industrial training facilities. In thisparadigm, the authors
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Joseph Idziorek, Iowa State University; Mark F. Tannian, Iowa State University; Douglas W. Jacobson, Iowa State University
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the U.S. Senate committee of the Judiciary on security issues associated with peer-to-peer networking. Page 22.1379.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Teaching Computer Security Literacy to Students from Non- Computing DisciplinesAbstractGone are the days when cyber security education was only a concern for computer and Internetexperts. In today’s world of pervasive computing, everyone is a target. The volume,sophistication, and
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Richard G. Helps, Brigham Young University
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Education of the ACM (ACM-SIGITE) conferenceproceedings supports this conclusion, with the majority of the published papers focusing on newtechnology developments that could be introduced into the classroom, with little or noconsideration of the educational curriculum architecture required or affected by these changes16.When it comes to rewards for educational design faculty tenure and promotion decisions incomputing disciplines are commonly based on successful research and peer-reviewed Page 22.874.3publication; upgrading curricula is seldom well recognized and rewarded for faculty in highereducation academic environments. Thus, in a rapidly