junkbots continues

The funding may have unfortunately stopped but the activities continue. On 30th March the Junkbots activities return to Brooke Weston School.

It was never the intention that all the tasks were achieved in the time, but the student's tried out their own groups ideas with little input from the tutors.

Some very innovative results were produced.

Thank you to Mr Nigel Barratt for inviting me back and supporting the activities.

Teacher Mr Barrett said: ‘The students just got on with it and devised the models themselves. They experimented all the way through. It was three and a half lessons of having a go, coming across problems and then solving them themselves. If they got stuck we gave them a little push in the right direction. They have all learned a great deal and they were all fully engaged with the project, giving it their maximum effort.’ (Freeman, 2011)

For more details and comments made from the school follow this link.

Details can be found at the project site including some example exercises.

For further details please contact: Scott.turner@northampton.ac.uk or +44 1604 893028

Freeman C (2011) "Junkbots Project 2011" [online] URL: http://www.brookeweston.org/News/NewsItem.aspx?Id=809 accessed on: 7th April 2011.

CEISE2011 paper: DEEPENING TEACHING AND LEARNING REFORM AND CONSTRUCTING AN INTEGRATED MODEL OF TOPCARES-CDIO TALENT NURTURING

An abstract from the 7th China – Europe International Symposium on Software Industry Orientated Education to be held 23-24th May 2011 at School of Science and Technology, University of Northampton, UK. For more details can be found at this link.

DEEPENING TEACHING AND LEARNING REFORM AND CONSTRUCTING AN INTEGRATED MODEL OF TOPCARES-CDIO TALENT NURTURING 

Wen Tao¹, Wang Weikun²

1 Dalian Neusoft Institute of Information, Dalian, China

2 School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Dalian University of Technology, China

ABSTRACT

At present, there are many problems and difficulties in information technology (IT) talent nurturing. The application-oriented IT talent with strong theoretical knowledge and practice ability as well as professional ability and all-round development are urgently needed. Based on Conceive-Design-Implement-Operate (CDIO) approach, Dalian Neusoft Institute of Information (NII) constructs TOPCARES-CDIO index system to help students acquire eight kinds of skills. Enhancing students’ professional ability and all-round development through academic majors as basic units of education, NII has deeply developed application-oriented integrated talent nurturing and comprehensively explored and practiced TOPCARES-CDIO talent nurturing model.

Proceedings can be found at: http://www.web-sustainablity.net/conference/GreenConferenceBook.pdf

Mobile Applications 2: Course material on an iphone

The Division of Computing at the University of Northampton  continues to develop material for mobile devices. Looking at the design of  the materials the division produces, and how these can be made more accessible on mobile devices such as the iphone.

Some examples are shown here.The two below show some of the taught material can be presented and accessed via a mobile device.

For more detail please contact: gary.hill@northampton.ac.uk

More detail of the publications with in the Computing division can be found by clicking here.