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| Content Provider | ACM Digital Library |
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| Author | Cervasato, Iliano Oflazer, Kemal Abu-Ghazaleh, Nael Karatsolis, Andreas Sans, Thierry Cooper, Yonina Harras, Khaled |
| Abstract | In the last decade or so, the ACM, the IEEE and other organizations have acknowledged that there is a problem with the way communication is taught in the Computer Science curriculum: the writing, speaking, and presentation skills students learn in the classroom do not match what is expected of them in the workplace. The proposed solution, adopted by many undergraduate colleges, was to add a technical communication course to the CS curriculum. This does not appear to be enough, as mainstream accreditation boards are still emphasizing the need for improvement of communication skills instruction in their recent reports and recommendations. For the last two years, we have experimented with a complementary transversal approach where many "traditional CS" courses in our program have added a communication component to their syllabus, while at the same time our technical communication course has been revamped to expose students to realistic practices as promoted by situated learning theory. The results, so far anecdotal, point to improved student performance and attitude across several communication dimensions, in particular writing and presentation. We plan to develop this experiment by spreading it across more classes and by starting to collect rigorous measurements of students' communication performance. |
| Starting Page | 283 |
| Ending Page | 287 |
| Page Count | 5 |
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| ISBN | 9781450306973 |
| DOI | 10.1145/1999747.1999827 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) |
| Publisher Date | 2011-06-27 |
| Publisher Place | New York |
| Access Restriction | Subscribed |
| Subject Keyword | Situated learning Curriculum alignment Applied communication |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
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