Smart Learning Objects for Smart Education in Computer Science Theor

This monograph presents the challenges, vision and context to design smart learning objects (SLOs) through Computer Science (CS) education modelling and feature model transformations. It presents the latest research on the meta-programming-based generativ

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Smart Learning Objects for Smart Education in Computer Science Theory, Methodology and Robot-Based Implementation

Smart Learning Objects for Smart Education in Computer Science

Vytautas Sˇtuikys

Smart Learning Objects for Smart Education in Computer Science Theory, Methodology and Robot-Based Implementation

Vytautas Sˇtuikys Department of Software Engineering Kaunas University of Technology Kaunas, Lithuania

ISBN 978-3-319-16912-5 ISBN 978-3-319-16913-2 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-16913-2

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Preface

The technology revolution has resulted in that already today we are living and working in a digital world surrounded by the modern technology infrastructure – the multiple devices (computers, mobile phones, cameras and robots) being integrated within networks are a commodity of our lives now. In the near future, however, not only humans and computers but also everyday life items will be interconnected to create the new computing infrastructure – the Internet of Things (IoT). This move from the ‘interconnected computers’ to the ‘interconnected things’ is a great challenge for the ICT workers, computer scientists and society on the whole. It is most likely that there will be the need for changes in computer science (CS) curricula to provide the adequate knowledge to support the development of new applications and services. On the other hand, today there is also an evident shift in learning paradigms. The e-learning community commonly agrees on the need of moving from the teachercentred learning towards the student-centred learning. What are the signs of this paradigm change in teaching CS topics? First, there is the ever-increasing number o