Challenging students software skills to learn hardware based courses

This paper describes the evolution of a hardware course in a software oriented curriculum. It explains the problems that students taking this course experienced in the past. Furthermore, it presents the improvements to the course curriculum and proposes a new teaching methodology, as well as the res...

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Main Authors: Stolikj, M., Ristov, S., Ackovska, N.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Computer architecture
computer science
Education
embeded systems
Hardware
hardware based courses
Hardware education
Materials
Microcontrollers
Programming
Software
teaching approaches
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Summary:This paper describes the evolution of a hardware course in a software oriented curriculum. It explains the problems that students taking this course experienced in the past. Furthermore, it presents the improvements to the course curriculum and proposes a new teaching methodology, as well as the results of its enforcement. All these changes lead to the overall improvement of the course quality: student satisfaction and interest, increased number of completed hardware projects and significant improvement in grade distribution.
ISSN:1330-1012