CS6604: Reinventing Education through the eTextbook
Instructor: Dr. C.A. Shaffer

The goal for the electronic textbook is to change how education is
done. This will not happen simply by migrating static textbooks
online, but rather by harnassing the full potential of the computer to
create totally new artifacts that combine content and multimedia (the
prior limits of the tradtional "eBook") with simulation, automated
assessment, and personalized tutoring.

Course Description:
This course will cover a broad range of topics that can support the
eTextbook of the future, especially as they relate to CS education.
Topics include:

* History of the use of electronic textbooks
* Existing research on their pedagogical effectiveness;
* The use of simulation in education
* The state of the art in algorithm visualization
* Online assessment: Question banks and automated assessment
* Intelligent tutors

This will be a seminar-style course based largely on reading and
discussing research papers. A significant semester project will be
developed by students, either individually or in teams. Publishable
papers related to the projects are possible and will be encouraged.