Possibilities for Organizing Group Work for Computer Science Students

Background. In the context of digitalization of all spheres of life, the issue of using digital technologies and artificial intelligence in education is becoming especially relevant. The effectiveness of using technologies in a university largely depends on how much the opinions of students and teachers coincide when choosing them. Purpose. Comparison of the opinions of university students and teachers on the effectiveness of digital technologies in professional education. Materials and methods. The main research method is the rank correlation method for investigating the preferences of digital technologies by students and teachers. In addition, an analysis of scientific literature was applied to compile a list of technologies, a comparative analysis was used to compare the answers of the subjects, and the method of interview was applied to determine the reasons for the technology ratings compiled by the participants in the educational process. Results. The preferences of students and teachers generally coincide, which is an indicator of good contact between the participants in the educational process. Differences in the preferences of humanities and IT students concern the assessment of educational platforms and electronic textbooks. IT students believe that with the advent of artificial intelligence, the role of electronic textbooks is declining. Teachers of English and computer science choose the same technologies as effective ones: educational platforms, electronic textbooks, mobile applications. Differences were found in the assessment of the least effective technologies: for foreign language teachers these are simulators, for computer science teachers - artificial intelligence.

Introduction from the ChairThe 2nd International Conference on Computing and Applied Informatics organized by Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Universitas Sumatera Utara (USU) Medan, Indonesia is published by IOPPin the UK and indexed by Scopus. This international forum provides an opportunity for the community of computer science, information technology and engineering to share and discuss their current area of research.Area of research in this conference includes: (1) Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Big Data, Data Mining, (2) Smart City, E-government, E-commerce, E-health (3) Bio Informatics, Socio Informatics, GIS, Information Security, (4) Human Computer Interaction, Augmented Reality, Image Vision, Natural Language Processing, Natural Language Generation, and (5) Software Engineering, Computer Graphics and Networking.There are 248 papers submitted to this conference and have reviewed by reviewers according to their respective field of interest. The acceptance rate of the paper is 123 (49.5%). Accepted papers come from Indonesia, Malaysia, Japan, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Iran and Egypt.We would like to express our sincere thanks to our keynote speakers: Prof Dr. Graham Kendall and Prof. Dr. Masafumi Nishimura. Moreover, our sincere gratitude Prof. Dr. Runtung Sitepu, Rector of Universitas Sumatera Utara, Mahyudin Nasution, M.IT, Phd, Vice Rector for Research, Community Service and Cooperation, Universitas Sumatera Utara, Prof. Dr. Opim Salim Sitompul, MSc, Dean of Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology Universitas Sumatera Utara, all presenters, all participants, all reviewers, all the committee members, faculty staff and students for their effort and supports in this conference.Lastly, on behalf of the organizing committee, I would like to welcome you to our second international conference on computing and applied informatics, ICCAI 2017. Our hope is that you have an enjoyable and inspiring as well as a successful moment during our conference. Thank you for your participation on ICCAI 2017.Dr. Erna Budhiarti Nababan, M.ITChair, ICCAI 2017

On behalf of the Organizing Committee, I am pleased to present the Proceeding of the 5th International Conference on Computing and Applied Informatics (ICCAI). The event, organized by The Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Universitas Sumatera Utara, is the 5th of the conference series. In this proceeding, we present 49 outstanding works from authors from 6 different countries. With the acceptance rate of 59%, we are confident that these manuscripts are able to fulfill the high standard of an international conference. These works have been through a though review process by our international board and editorial team and has been revised accordingly. Our highest appreciation to every author that has been participated in this event and has collaborated tirelessly with our editorial team to meet the high standard that we expect in this conference.This event is one of our many efforts to establish our faculty as a reputable education institution internationally. As part of Universitas Sumatera Utara, who recently just listed in the QS World University Rankings, we are obligated to contribute to the global research effort to develop the society. However, over the past few months, the pandemic limits our interaction significantly. Conducting an international conference while maintaining the quality of the event can be challenging. Thus, we have decided to perform this event both on-site and online and set up a few new rules to preserve the quality we have been established in the previous conferences. I am pleased to inform you that The 5th ICCAI has met the requirement of a high quality international event.I would also like to appreciate the keynote speakers that have presented their best work in the conference: Prof. Dr.-Ing Hendro Wicaksono from Jacobs University Bremen gGmbH, Germany; Prof. Matthew N. Dailey from Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand; and Prof. Gyun Woo from Pusan National University, South Korea. Their contribution has become a valuable insight for the future research.Lastly, I would like to give my highest gratitude to all the international committee, the steering committee, and the organizing committee, who have spent countless times to support this conference. It is my privilege to work alongside the current committees that have repeatedly shown an outstanding effort to make this event possible.Thank youDr. Eng. Ade CandraChair of The 5th ICCAI 2021Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Universitas Sumatera UtaraEmail: ade_candra@usu.ac.idList of Committees are available in this pdf.

In this paper, learning and knowledge control systems developed by the Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology of the Riga Technical University are described. These systems are used in teaching various subjects on different study programs and specialties. The paper also presents results of use of computer systems in student self-study and self-control. Students could freely choose, whether or not to use these systems during their studies. We focused on two scenarios of non-compulsory use of computer systems, namely with a motivating system or without one. In both cases students actively used computer systems for self-control and self-study. Our research shows that using computer systems for both knowledge control and study (as opposed to knowledge control alone) increased knowledge level of all students, regardless of their overall performance.

In a previous paper, we explored results from the first stage of a two-part research project designed to uncover what influences computer science (CS) faculty to adopt new teaching practices. In the first phase, we conducted interviews, classroom observations, and focus groups with faculty to better understand the organizational, individual, and social factors that influence faculty adoption. Here we discuss findings from the second phase of the project, which uses survey data from 821 CS faculty at 595 institutions in the U.S. to investigate the prevalence of themes uncovered during the qualitative phase. Results show that faculty who tried an innovation were motivated primarily by concerns for students' learning and course experience, including their engagement and participation. Also important were the "fit" with existing practices and tools, and the logistics of implementing an innovation. Factors that reduced faculty willingness to try an innovation include a lack of time, logistical issues, and satisfaction with their current teaching practices. Faculty learned about the innovations they later adopted through presentations and workshops at conferences and at their home institutions, and through conversations with respected colleagues who teach in similar contexts. Implications for encouraging more widespread usage of teaching techniques that improve diversity and student learning are discussed.

“I didn't think I'd like group work, but I ended up in a good team and it was a great experience. But I feel if you end up in a bad team it can really get you down and will affect your mark.” This student response (University of Exeter, U.K.) is typical and telling. At least some of the time teams work, and the progression from “didn't think I'd like” to “great experience” happens often enough that those of us who use team work have come to expect it, at least part of the time. The ability to work well in teams is essential for our graduates. It cuts across all the questions — what, where, why and how we teach. However, not all of our students find working as a member of a team a natural and easy thing to do. Not only that, even though the student quoted in the preceding paragraph uses the phrase “good team” and the phrase “bad team” these and many other terms are not well defined. The Computer Science (CS) academic community regards group project work as an essential component of any degree; the discipline's professional societies world-wide emphasize project and group work as preparation for professional practice. Project work is recognized as having many educational and social benefits, in particular providing students with opportunities for active learning. Nevertheless, managing project work is problematic, because CS projects are: expensive , demanding considerable supervision as well as technical resources; complex , marrying design, human communication, human-computer interaction, and technology to satisfy objectives ranging from consolidation of technical skills through provoking insight into organizational practice, teamwork and professional issues, to inculcating academic discipline and presentation skills; continually demanding , set in the context of a rapidly changing technology which affects technical objectives and demands ever-evolving skills in both students and supervisors. In a young and changing discipline, some aspect of project work is questioned in almost every institution. The three panelists bring experience from four educational institutions in two countries. Louise Moses is Chair of the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems at Mount Union College. She has supervised team projects in extra-departmental service courses, classes provided for departmental majors, and inter-disciplinary courses. During the summer term of the previous three academic years she has been Honorary Visiting Researcher in the Department of Computer Science in the School of Engineering at The University of Exeter, Exeter, U.K. In that position she has worked as part of the management team for first year students in the first year project. James Caristi is a professor of mathematics and computer science at Valparaiso University. He was the 1990 recipient of the Sears Roebuck Award for Teaching Excellence and Campus Leadership, and is the 1999 recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Award from the Indiana Section of the Mathematical Association of America. He has been using teams in different ways in computer science classes at all levels for over 15 years. Sally Fincher is a Lecturer in the Computing Laboratory at the University of Kent at Canterbury in England. She has been project manager for the Effective Projectwork in Computer Science (EPCoS) project. EPCoS was a 10-partner, three-year funded project which worked to identify best practices in CS projectwork, transfer those practices between institutions and examine and analyze the process of transfer. We have wrestled with project design and how to make team assignments. And, even though providing good teamwork experiences is more of an art than a science — with no hard and fast rules — there are guidelines; it will be profitable to share our knowledge and our experiences. We shall consider six major areas concerning team and group work, and the kind of issues that are associated with them. Allocation How do we allocate students to groups? And then groups to supervisors? Supervision What sort of role should a supervisor take with respect to their group? Friend, mentor, project manager or technical guru? Does it make a difference? Assessment How do we assess the contribution of an individual when the deliverables are a team effort ? Should we even try to? Motivation What happens when students get into a “bad” team? How do we keep them motivated? Reflection Especially when introducing teamwork into the curriculum, reflection is an essential part of the learning cycle. How do we plan to make sure we include time and opportunity for this? Teamwork How do we encourage working together, when in some other academic circumstances this might be called “cheating”?

Submission of information can use 3-dimensional (3D) images that will make information clearer and more interesting. Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology (FKTI) one of the faculties located at Mulawarman University. Base rooms and laboratories are often used and if someone wants to do peripherals then he will look for additional peripherals. However, they do not have a device that can be used to know the pattern of each room function and the learning environment must have additional devices to facilitate the use of Augmented Reality 3D media. Therefore, it is necessary to have augmented reality media to provide an understanding of visual information for the faculty room and the basic laboratory of the FKTI program. Each scheme of determining markers is adjusted to the point where the camera will scan. Tests are carried out to show the results are done on plain paper that already has their own floor plan and in each room partition can display basic information about the room. Light testing is also done with the result that if the light is $\gt300$ lux then it can be ascertained that AR visibility will appear quickly.

This paper aims to study and address the phenomenon of low level of students in the university compared to their level in the secondary stage, through the study sample represented in the Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Al-Neelain University (Batch 2019) using the statistical package (SPSS) and using its outputs to help decision makers to choose optimal solutions to address this phenomenon.

This paper describes the programming courses curriculum implemented by the Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology (FCSIT), University of Malaya (UM) from the year 1995 to the present time. It explains the idea and logic behind the various programming courses offered at the faculty, the changes that the programming courses went through throughout the years, and also the future plans that FCSIT shall take with regards to the programming courses offered. It also discusses the students' performance in the core programming courses throughout the years; taking into account the feedback from companies that offered placements to students during their industrial training, and also their examination results.

Information technology development brings a very broad impact on human life. With this Model View Controller (MVC) concept, information system development could be developed in accordance needs of the user’s information system development and be able to adapt the development in the organization. Needs of fast and precise and adaptive information system information is needed in this modern era when everything needs to be fast. Faculty of computer science (FIK) Universitas Pembangunan Nasional Veterans Jakarta (UPNVJ) as one work unit under the government agency, has State-owned inventories to support all activities to carry out the Tri Dharma or the higher education pillars, especially in the field of education. The state-owned inventories or devices are available in FIK such as monitors, printers, LCD, mouse, etc. For continuity of this educational process, the state-owned inventories must be maintained. Therefore, in this research, the researchers will develop an information system to document the state-owned inventory records for helping the management of the state-owned inventories in the faculty of computer science at UPN Veteran Jakarta. The information system was built using the waterfall method and using the PHP programming language and MySQL database running on a server. This information system provides features to manage users, manage components, access system logs, access system settings, manage devices, manage the location, and access reports. The system that has been developed has also passed the eligibility assessment for all aspects of both visual communication aspects, software engineering aspects, and usability aspects.

PrefaceInternational Conference on Design, Engineering and Computer Sciences 2018 (ICDECS 2018) held on 9th August 2018 in JS Luwansa Hotel and Convention Center, Jakarta Indonesia. ICDECS 2018 was organized and hosted by Faculty of Engineering, Faculty of Computer Science and Faculty of Art and Design Universitas Mercu Buana Jakarta.The first ICDECS 2018 aims to provide a platform for participants an interdisciplinary research and innovations from academia and industry with related topics in the field of Engineering; Computer Science; Art and Design. The conference provides a high level national and international research for scholars, scientists, researchers, and engineers to present their results in the field of engineering, computer science and art and design. The issue covers all the aspects of engineering from mechanical, electric and electronic, civil, architect, industrial engineering as well as in the filed of computer science, art and design.The editors hope that this issue will provide the reader a broad overview of the recent and relevant field of the above disciplines. The editors would like to express their sincere appreciations and thanks to all the committee members of the ICDECS 2018 for their excellent efforts. Thanks also to IOP Conference Series for producing the issue with full articles.Conference ChairDr. Setiyo Budiyanto, MT.List of Editorial Board, Organizing Committee and Photos are available in this PDF

What if “regular” Computer Science (CS) faculty each taught elements of inclusive design in “regular” CS courses across an undergraduate curriculum? Would it affect the CS program's climate and inclusiveness to diverse students? Would it improve retention? Would students learn less CS? Would they actually learn any inclusive design? To answer these questions, we conducted a year-long Action Research investigation, in which 13 CS faculty integrated elements of inclusive design into 44 CS/IT offerings across a 4-year curriculum. The 613 affected students’ educational work products, grades, and/or climate questionnaire responses revealed significant improvements in students’ course outcomes (higher course grades and fewer course fails/incompletes/withdrawals), especially for marginalized groups; revealed that most students did learn and apply inclusive design concepts to their CS activities; and revealed that inclusion and teamwork in the courses significantly improved. These results suggest a new pathway for significantly improving students’ retention, their knowledge and usage of inclusive design, and their experiences across CS education—for marginalized groups and for all students.

The present research study aims to determine the virtual teaching campus’s effect on the competencies of teachers of the Faculty of Industrial Engineering, Systems and Computer Science of the Universidad Nacional Jose Faustino Sanchez Carrion - 2017. In addition, the research is applied, deductive method, quasi-experimental design of longitudinal cut and explanatory level. It was determined for the variable Virtual Teaching Campus dimensions such as technological infrastructure, quality of content, and web system, and the variable competencies of teachers the dimensions ICT and social competencies and methodological strategies. In every university, they are vital to improving the quality of teaching. On the other hand, an observation guide was applied as an instrument, validated by expert judgment reaching 91.4% and with acceptable reliability obtained through Cronbach’s Alpha of 0.981. The population comprises 65 teachers of the Faculty of Industrial Engineering, Systems and Computer Science; we used a census sample because the population was small. Furthermore, the Student’s T statistical method was applied. The results obtained show, with 95% confidence, that there is a high positive significant influence (p=0.000 and α=0.05) produced by the use of the Virtual Teaching Campus on the competencies of the teachers of the Faculty of Industrial Engineering, Systems and Computer Science of the Universidad Nacional Jose Faustino Sanchez Carrion - 2017.

Distance learning has become the main teaching and learning method, and currently the metaverse is being proposed as a new alternative to access educational information. Therefore, metaverse technology is a new alternative to accessing educational information. As it began to be used educationally in several countries such as Korea and Japan and through this study it can show that it is important to know the opinion of students in their teaching and learning using the metaverse technology by collecting opinions, and it will be possible to know how to use educational spaces better. Such investigations are required to determine the effectiveness of the results obtained using the metaverse for educational purposes, and it will be worthwhile to gain an understanding of how to use the educational environment more effectively, and for the need to educate students about metaverse technology and how it can be used to access information, the current study looks to know what students think about how to use metaverse applications in the classroom and access to information. In this research, the descriptive analytical approach was used in the current research, and the research community was represented in the students of the Department of Computer Engineering at King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, where a random sample of 89 students of the Department of Computer Engineering was taken, and through the use of the questionnaire as a tool for this study, to collect information and data related to it. The results showed that the degree of students' response to the use of metaverse technology in education, and the benefits of using metaverse technology in the classroom, was highly approved. The results also showed that the degree of students' response to the disadvantages of using metaverse technology in the classroom was with an average degree of approval, and there were no statistically significant differences between males and females, ages, the extent to which metaverse technology was used before, and the availability of metaverse technology in permanent and purposeful learning in the classroom in the axes of the tool Study at a statistical significance level (0.05). The creation of digital learning and research environments for immersive experiences is not reflected in the proliferation of a large number of educational experiments conducted on metaverse technology, and therefore the subject of study is of interest for further research and innovation to lay the theoretical foundations for the expansion of the field of study. It has become necessary to carry out a systematic review of the main scientific literature to contribute to the subject of study with great potential to ensure the optimal establishment of its theoretical foundations and its subsequent adoption as the main topic for the use of technology in the field of education, after which to demonstrate the theoretical peculiarities that can be applied to the teaching methodology.

Background: Three central North Island District Health Boards developed a collaborative partnership to create an education framework to improve workplace learning by nurses. A Joint Nursing Speciality Education Project Group was formed to explore frameworks and models of care that would support and enhance nursing practice. Aims and objectives: The aim of this article is to reflect critically on the process of leading the project group during the development of a nursing framework that would encompass a holistic view of education and meet the needs of each participating health board. The article also examines the issues encountered, which included the difficulties of working with nurses from different organisations in different geographical locations. Conclusions and implications for practice: The process of developing the Person-Whānau (Family) Centred Nursing Framework was a team effort and working collaboratively across health boards has been extremely rewarding. We faced workload and geographical challenges in trying to get the whole group together but the chance to develop a framework that has the ability to improve patient outcomes has been exciting and the relationships we have forged along the way with members of the project group have been positive.