A Vision of Smart Teaching in CS

The aim of this chapter is twofold. The first aim is to describe the context to ease the understanding of the subsequent topics. Here, by the context, I mean the analysis of research trends in the e-learning and domains (the latter is treated as a very significant branch of e-learning) so that the reader could be able first to understand the essence of the domain and then be aware of the intention of our approach which focuses on two novel concepts, smart learning object and smart educational environment, to teach computer science. The second aim is to present the primary knowledge on those smart items to be considered in detail later throughout the book.

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