{"id":16481,"date":"2011-03-15T09:17:28","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T13:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=16481"},"modified":"2011-03-15T09:17:48","modified_gmt":"2011-03-15T13:17:48","slug":"computer-science-courses-use-mobile-apps-to-make-coursework-relevant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2011\/03\/15\/computer-science-courses-use-mobile-apps-to-make-coursework-relevant\/","title":{"rendered":"Computer science courses use mobile apps to make coursework relevant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/education\/computer-science-programs-use-mobile-apps-to-make-coursework-relevant\/2011\/02\/22\/ABX1xMN_story.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Computer science courses use mobile apps to make coursework relevant<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from The Washington Post<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The Virginia Tech student\u2019s concern about buses, Tilevich said,  offered a chance to show students that coding can be relevant. By the  end of the semester, the advanced software engineering class had  partnered with the city transit system to obtain data from Global  Positioning System devices on dozens of city buses. An algorithm soon  was predicting arrival times and beaming the information to a prototype  mobile application.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cSometimes as faculty members, we have to step  back. We have to let them run wild,\u201d said Tilevich, a former  professional clarinet player who <a href=\"http:\/\/etilevich.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">blogs about his teaching experiments<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Originally saw this at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.getideas.org\/library\/links\/computer-science-courses-use-mobile-apps-make-coursework-relevant\" target=\"_blank\">GetIdeas.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Computer science courses use mobile apps to make coursework relevant &#8212; from The Washington Post The Virginia Tech student\u2019s concern about buses, Tilevich said, offered a chance to show students that coding can be relevant. By the end of the semester, the advanced software engineering class had partnered with the city transit system to obtain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,245,204,305],"tags":[591,67,674,720],"class_list":["post-16481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-science","category-mobile-technologies","category-programming","category-project-based-learning","tag-computer-science","tag-mobile-technology","tag-programming","tag-project-based-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16481"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16484,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16481\/revisions\/16484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}