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Industry fellows: bringing professional practice into the classroom

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SIGCSE '10: Proceedings of the 41st ACM technical symposium on Computer science education

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1734263.1734290

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The Industry Fellows project involves a practicing college or university faculty member and practicing industry professional (the industry fellow) in the joint curriculum review, planning and delivery of a course related to the professional's domain of expertise. Working together exploits what each does best. The faculty member brings a broad, theory-based understanding to the discipline, while the industry fellow brings knowledge gained from professional practice. The faculty member retains full responsibility for all academic aspects of the course: planning and writing the syllabus, developing the assignments and examinations, and assigning grades. The professional joins the faculty member in the classroom on a regular basis as a co-lecturer, interacts directly with the students, and evaluates a sample of the student work on an advisory basis. This model was successfully run in winter 2009, with the project leader collaborating with an interaction designer from Google on teaching a Human Computer Interaction course at the University of Washington, Tacoma (UWT). This paper describes the Industry Fellows model, its instantiation at UWT, and an evaluation of this instantiation.

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Industry fellows: bringing professional practice into the classroom
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  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Computer science education
        Information systems education
    2. Computing profession
      1. Computing occupations

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