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Peer teaching extends HCI learning

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Beryl Plimmer,

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ITICSE '06: Proceedings of the 11th annual SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1140124.1140141

Published: 26 June 2006 Publication History

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Crafting a good user experience requires skills in several disciplines. Few people have this breadth of knowledge, and undergraduate computer science students are no exception. Encouraging computer science students to appreciate the ways that other disciplines contribute to Human Computer Interaction is important, yet difficult. Our students learn about this disciplinary interdependence through peer teaching as part of a group project. Each group contains students with complementary skills and we expect a transfer of knowledge. Here we discuss the educational theory behind the project, the project's essential elements and an evaluation of how it aids learning. The model we have developed could be easily adapted for other courses which draw on diverse skills.

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ITICSE '06: Proceedings of the 11th annual SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education

June 2006

390 pages

ISBN:1595930558

DOI:10.1145/1140124

Conference Chair:
Renzo Davoli
Università di Bologna, Italy
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Michael Goldweber
Xavier University
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Paola Salomoni
Università di Bologna, Italy

ACM SIGCSE Bulletin Volume 38, Issue 3
September 2006
367 pages
ISSN:0097-8418
DOI:10.1145/1140123
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