USING INCREMENTAL PROJECTS FOR STUDENT-CENTERED LEARNING.

Teaching emerging technologies with a student-centered learning approach in Computer Science Department is generally perceived as a challenging task. This is mainly due to the fact that students usually lack the knowledge for getting involved in dialogues about the course subjects. This paper introduces the pedagogical approach of using incremental lab projects for promoting student-centered learning in teaching Web Technologies and Java Programming II. In this paper, the concepts of web applications, JavaServer Faces, and NetBeans Integrated Development Environment (IDE) are introduced. Then the approach of using incremental JSF projects is described. In the future, the assessment for the effectiveness of using incremental projects in teaching will be reported based on hypothesis tests with the t statistic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]