• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• v.23 no.5
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• pp.427-440
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• 2019

Software courses required for all students regardless of their major in many universities. SW educational effectiveness model needs to be developed to enable effective communication among students, professors, and SW educators, and to identify the responsibilities of SW educators. SW educational effectiveness model based on literature review is composed of computational thinking, SW literacy, SW awareness, and SW attitude. Computational thinking, focused on analysis and design of problem solving processes, consists of decomposition, pattern recognition, abstraction, and algorithms. SW literacy involves viewing social development based on SW beyond information literacy in the digital age. The SW awareness and attitude were organized by considering the collegiate contexts. The SW educational effectiveness model will be used as the basis for diagnosis tools as further studies.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.21-31
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• 2018

Recently, there is an increasing number of universities in which SW education is operated as a liberal arts education regardless of major. In this paper, the survey is conducted to analysis the factors affecting the non-majors students' perception of the necessity of SW education through a case study of SW liberal arts by gender, college, and SW learning experience. As a result, men, students of social science college, and students with SW learning experience strongly agreed that SW education for non-majors is essential. 'SW education is very helpful in studying my major' was analyzed as a necessary condition of SW education for non-majors. Especially, the difficulty of SW learning did not affect the recognition of the necessity of non-majors SW education. If the SW liberal education is based on the SW technology that helps their major, it will be expected that the improved learning motivation due to majors-relevance will deepen a consensus on SW education.

• The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.11-20
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• 2019

As the influence of SW spreads, many countries concentrate on SW education policies for women. Although the SW education is strengthened, study on the curriculum suitable for women is still insufficient. The study conducted 422 middle school students to investigate differences in perception of SW by gender. It consisted of 207 male students and 215 female students, and survey analyzed in three categories : SW environment, SW education awareness and SW career interest. The analysis showed that SW education for female students is necessary to increase the confidence and interest in them, and that SW education opportunities for female students should be expanded so that interest and expectation of information education should be increased. In addition, it is necessary to introduce and promote SW related career path which can increase interest in SW related job and SW related major. This study is meaningful in that at this point when the revised curriculum begins to be applied, there are differences in perception of informatics and SW by gender, and that it is necessary to study the SW curriculum suitable for gender for effective achievement.

• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• v.23 no.5
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• pp.395-413
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• 2019

The purpose of this study is to explore non-major students' perception and experiences in college software education. For this, we analyzed the reflection journals of 36 non-major students in D University based on the Consensual Qualitative Research(CQR). As a result, there was not general core concept to all students nor a typical core concept that appeared to more than 50% students. However, various variable core concepts could be derived. Overall, 57 variable concepts were derived from experience in SW education and 7 variable concepts for perception of SW education. Based on this result, we found many of non-major students feel difficulty from unfamiliarity to SW education. Also, many students have satisfaction in their perception to SW education about personalized learning that their professor provided in the class. Lastly, we conclude that a methodology for SW education needs to have a careful operation strategy and interactive design. Although this study has not been able to elucidate general core concepts that appear to all learners, it has significant implication in terms of providing various implicit core concepts and suggestions for effective software education for non-major students.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2020.07a
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• pp.629-632
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• 2020

현대사회는 4차 산업혁명 시대가 도래하면서 초연결, 초지능, 초융합 사회로 변화되고 있다. 최근 교육부는 많은 변화가 요구되고 있는 교육분야, 교육정책 방안으로 SW(소프트웨어)교육에 AI(인공지능) 교육까지 추가되야 한다고 제안하고 2024년까지 첨단 기술을 활용한 지능형 과학실을 구축한다고 밝혔다. 이에 본 논문에서는 정부의 교육정책 방안이 원활하게 진행될 수 있고 융합 교육 분야에서 활용될 수 있는 "미래 지능형 과학실 활용을 위한 화학원소기호 이미지 기계학습 AI·SW교육 프로그램"을 제안하고자 한다.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.1-10
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• 2016

Society is operating with software and a new digital era through the Internet of Things started. A variety of fields are being in conjunction with each other based on computing. As problems in real life become more complicated and communication based on various knowledge and problem solving skills are emphasized, these changes are reflected in the curriculum. These changes started from overseas in advance then Korea includes SW education in elementary and secondary education through curriculum revision of 2015. On the other hand, SW education for university students just started after the curriculum revision of elementary and secondary education. The new SW education highlights and develops Computational Thinking beyond programming and it will be a key for the future. Therefore, this study analyzed trends of Computational Thinking and examples of CT courses in Universities. Suggestions and ideas for instructional model to develop Computational Thinking were discussed.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.17 no.10
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• pp.23-35
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• 2019

In order to cultivate talented people who have problem solving ability due to computational thinking according to the trend of the fourth industrial revolution, each university is actively promoting software education. This study suggests that understanding-oriented SW curriculum is needed for non-majors students to improve computational thinking. In order to achieve the purpose of the study, this study designed the basic education program based on the understanding of the SW with the backward design model. The SW Basic Education Program was applied to 15 weeks of instruction and conducted three surveys. The positive effects of the understanding-oriented SW basic education on the computational thinking efficacy and the computer perception were verified. In addition, it was found that the understanding-oriented computational thinking and programming education are effective when they are linked to one process. It is expected that understanding-based SW based education, which uses the backward design model, can be applied as one of the efficient ways to improve computational thinking in the education field.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2016.01a
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• pp.155-156
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• 2016

한국의 대학은 높은 교육열, 자녀 수 감소, 일자리 창출 미흡, 전공.직업 불일치율 50%(OECD 2015 보고서)등 교육 수요자의 기대와 기업이 선호하는 인재양성을 해야 하는 대학교육의 위기이다. 이 위기에 IoT, 클라우드(Cloud), 빅데이터(Big data), 모바일(Mobile) 기술을 원활하게 지원하기 위한 소프트웨어(SW)가 필수적이다. 'SW 경쟁력 없이는 기업의 미래가 없다', 'SW 인재가 세상을 바꾼다'등 SW의 중요성과 비전이다. 미국의 구글, 애플, 페이스북, 트위터와 중국의 바이두, 알리바바, 텐센트 등도 SW를 바탕으로 전 세계로 뻗어가고 있다. 지금이 SW 강국으로 가는 마지막 기회로, SW 중심사회 실현을 위한 인재양성 확대가 시급하다.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.25 no.3
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• pp.243-250
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• 2020

In this paper, we propose an effective software education scheme for universities. The key idea of this software education scheme is to analyze software curriculum of QS world university rankings Top 10, SW-oriented university, and regional main national university. And based on the results, we propose five improvements for the effective SW education method of universities. The first is to enhance the adaptability of the industry by developing courses based on the SW developer's job analysis in the curriculum development process. Second, it is necessary to strengthen the curriculum of the 4th industrial revolution core technologies(cloud computing, big data, virtual/augmented reality, Internet of things, etc.) and integrate them with various fields such as medical, bio, sensor, human, and cognitive science. Third, programming language education should be included in software convergence course after basic syntax education to implement projects in various fields. In addition, the curriculum for developing system programming developers and back-end developers should be strengthened rather than application program developers. Fourth, it offers opportunities to participate in industrial projects by reinforcing courses such as capstone design and comprehensive design, which enables product-based self-directed learning. Fifth, it is necessary to develop university-specific curriculum based on local industry by reinforcing internship or industry-academic program that can acquire skills in local industry field.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.27 no.9
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• pp.267-277
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• 2022

Recently, the topics of SW liberal-arts education are diversifying, from 'Computational Thinking(CT)' to 'Programming, Data Analysis and Artificial Intelligence(AI)' in universities. We expect that the diversification of SW liberal-arts subjects does not just mean that the learning contents are different, but also differentiates the educational goals and educational effects of each subject. In this paper, we conducted a case study to analyze the educational effect according to the educational goals of two SW liberal-arts subjects, CT and Data Analysis Fundamentals(DA), for humanities college students. We confirmed that the educational effect of 'CT Efficacy' increased significantly in accordance with the common educational goal of 'Improving CT-based SW convergence competency' in both subjects. However, we also analyzed the difference in the educational effects of 'CT(the goal of basic SW education)' and 'DA(the goal of major-friendly SW education)', which have different subject goals. 'CT' mainly showed an educational effect on how to solve general daily problems, and 'DA' showed confidence in how to solve major problems along with general problems.