Collaborative Computer Game Accepted at Research Symposium

March 25, 2015

Teacher education and computer science students of Dr. Katya Strekalova-Hughes and Dr. Rania Hodhod have been accepted to present their collaborative work at the 2015 Big South Undergraduate Research Symposium at Campbell University in North Carolina. Jacquelyn DeLauder, Shytara Fields, Ian Jensen, and Jordan Harrelson were awarded Student Research and Creative Endeavor Grants to support their travel to the conference.

Dr. Strekalova-Hughes and Dr. Hodhod were recipients of a Fall 2014 Interdisciplinary Initiative Grant from the Faculty Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning. Their grant-winning project allowed students to work on designing, developing and implementing an educational computer game. Students from the Early Childhood Education program researched developmentally-appropriate pedagogies to support school children’s mathematical thinking and designed tasks that were aligned with this research. Computer science students worked on integrating the tasks into an educational computer game.

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