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How Harvard, San Francisco State, and The College of New Jersey use GitHub in their courses As a teacher, you juggle the endless stream of student emails, faculty responsibilities, and…
As a teacher, you juggle the endless stream of student emails, faculty responsibilities, and an ever-evolving field of scholarship. Is it worth to switch to version control for your courses? What do students get out of it?
Three teachers candidly reflected on the benefits GitHub offers their classroom practice at the recent Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education conference (SIGCSE) in Seattle.
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Monisha Pulimood, Professor of Computer Science and Chair at The College of New Jersey, shifted her class on databases to a project-based model, where students collaborate in teams with a service learning component.
My concern was that, because of all the collaborative activities, I was losing class time for the students to actually master the content. But in fact, they are. It turns out they are really doing well with that; there’s a good increase in understanding the content. Students can answer deeper questions than they could before.
David J. Malan from Harvard University walked through the nuts and bolts of implementing Git and GitHub for CS50 in this deck.
Once a month we’ll pass along tips and tricks for implementing Git and GitHub in your classroom.
