Challenges of STEM-Driven Computer Science (CS) Education

Based on the thorough analysis of the literature, Chap. 1 introduces readers with challenges of STEM-driven education in general and those challenges caused by the use of this paradigm in computer science (CS) education in particular. This analysis enables to motivate our approach we discuss throughout the book. Chapter 1 also formulates objectives, research agenda and topics this book addresses. The objectives of the book are to discuss the concepts and approaches enabling to transform the current CS education paradigm into the STEM-driven one at the school and, to some extent, at the university. We seek to implement this transformation through the integration of the STEM pedagogy, the smart content and smart devices and educational robots into the smart STEM-driven environment, using reuse-based approaches taken from software engineering and CS.

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