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Instructional Module Development System (IMODS)

Published: 11 July 2016 Publication History

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To ensure that future generations of engineering, science, and other technological practitioners are equipped with the required knowledge and skills to continue to innovate solutions to solve societal challenges, effective courses or instructional modules that incorporate best pedagogical and assessment practices must be designed and delivered. Science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) educators typically come from STEM backgrounds and have little or no formal STEM education training. Their approaches to learning, instruction, and assessment mimic the experiences they were exposed to as students and are not necessarily informed by scholarship in the area of how people learn. The road to effective STEM instruction starts with a well-conceived and constructed plan or curriculum that includes the tight alignment of content, pedagogical approaches and assessments, around the learning objectives, and draws upon best-practices in each of these areas. An information technology (IT) tool that can guide STEM educators through the complex task of course design development, ensure tight alignment between various components of an instructional module, and provide relevant information about research-based pedagogical and assessment strategies will be of great value. This demonstration presents a Web-based software tool called the Instructional Module Development System (IMODS) that supports these ventures and broadens the impact and reach of professional development in the scholarship of teaching and learning, particularly to STEM faculty.

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ITiCSE '16: Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education
July 2016
394 pages
ISBN:9781450342315
DOI:10.1145/2899415
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Published: 11 July 2016

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  1. accreditation
  2. computer science education
  3. curriculum
  4. information systems education

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ITiCSE '16 Paper Acceptance Rate 56 of 147 submissions, 38%;
Overall Acceptance Rate 552 of 1,613 submissions, 34%

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