Emerging computational tools: impact on engineering education and computer science learning

• Autores: Cornelio Yáñez-Márquez, Mario Adalpe Pérez, Itzamá López Yáñez, Oscar Camacho-Nieto
• Localización: The International journal of engineering education, ISSN-e 0949-149X, Vol. 30, no. Extra 3, 2014, págs. 533-542
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Computational tools have become an almost permanent element and one that must be present in novel schemes of interactivelearning, practically for every educational topic in engineering education. A pretty natural environment for the application of suchemerging technologies is that of scholar courses immersed in computer sciences learning, either in technical, superior orpostgraduate teaching. Of particular interest are the teaching—learning processes of such topics as artificial intelligence, patternrecognition, neural networks, and associative memories. This interest arises from the magnitude of enrichment gleaned when thekind of emerging computational tools mentioned above are applied to these processes. The current paper focuses on describing andanalyzing the positive impacts achieved in the teacher—student interactions through the application and everyday usage of a set ofemerging computational tools that the authors have previously and currently employed in postgraduate computer sciences courses.Notice, however, that the results presented here are applicable—in a straightforward manner—to engineering education in general.