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Active eTextbooks for CS: what should they be? (abstract only)

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Clifford A. ShafferAuthors Info & Claims

SIGCSE '12: Proceedings of the 43rd ACM technical symposium on Computer Science Education

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2157136.2157428

Published: 29 February 2012 Publication History

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What should the textbook of tomorrow look like in a world of ubiquitous access to computing? Hypertextbooks have proved difficult to create and been fundamentally passive experiences. Commercial eBooks are merely books printed on an electronic screen instead of paper. New technologies such as HTML5 make it feasible to develop interactive applications that integrate with web services to provide a rich, pedagogically effective learning environment compatible with a range of computing platforms. We seek to generate discussion by participants to describe what they hope to see in online textbooks in the near future, and what resources and support would be required for them to adopt such a thing into their own courses.

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SIGCSE '12: Proceedings of the 43rd ACM technical symposium on Computer Science Education

February 2012

734 pages

ISBN:9781450310987

DOI:10.1145/2157136

Conference Chairs:
Laurie Smith King
College of the Holy Cross
,
David R. Musicant,
Program Chairs:
Tracy Camp
Colorado School of Mines
,
Paul Tymann
Rochester Institute of Technology

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Association for Computing Machinery

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Published: 29 February 2012

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SIGCSE '12

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SIGCSE '12: The 43rd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

February 29 - March 3, 2012

North Carolina, Raleigh, USA

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SIGCSE '12 Paper Acceptance Rate 100 of 289 submissions, 35%;

Overall Acceptance Rate 1,787 of 5,146 submissions, 35%

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