Bioinformatics education can be broadly defined as the teaching and learning of the use of
computer and information technology, along with mathematical and statistical analysis for …

ABSTRACT In the United States, underrepresentation of women in computer science (CS) is
a matter of national concern. It is a twofold problem consisting of two distinct challenges, the …

Many active learning techniques have been used and described over the years, including
team-based learning (TBL). While this technique is well established, it is only recently that …

First year computer science programming has always been a challenge for many students
as the course expectation is not only for them to be able to understand programming …

The benefits of interdisciplinary computing classes have been widely discussed. For the
computing students, they provide a context in which to apply their skills, and appear to aid in …

We present the curriculum, deployment, and initial evaluation of a course, BioCS1, designed
to serve as CS1 and Biology1 for majors of either (or both) disciplines. Cotaught by …

Trotz zahlreicher Gegenmaßnahmen hat die Informatik nach wie vor mit hohen
Abbruchquoten und einem steigenden Desinteresse zu kämpfen. Wir vermuten, dass …

Interdisciplinarity has been touted as a means to recruit more racially and gender-diverse
students to computing. In this explanatory sequential mixed-methods study, we investigated …

This paper presents a successful model for undergraduate research where student
participants work on interdisciplinary research projects; in our case, at the frontier between …

We present the curriculum, deployment, and initial evaluation of a course, BioCS1, designed
to serve as an introductory course in both biology and CS. Co-taught by professors in both …