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“How can we make sure our students learn what we want them to?” is the number one question in teaching. This paper is intended to provide the reader with: (i) a general answer to this question based on The Theory of Constructive Alignment by John Biggs; (ii) relevant insights for bringing this answer from theory to practice; and (iii) specific insights and experiences from using constructive alignment in teaching model-based design for concurrency (as a case study in implementing alignment).
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Brabrand, C. (2008). Constructive Alignment for Teaching Model-Based Design for Concurrency. In: Jensen, K., van der Aalst, W.M.P., Billington, J. (eds) Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency I. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5100. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89287-8_1
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