1. The Role of Independent Studies Rationale #7

2. Your opportunity to work with faculty
Each masters student can take one non-graded course.
CSC 630
ECE 633
ECE 634
An opportunity to work
individually, or almost so.

3. How independent studies contribute to this course
Design-patterns exercises
Lectures on new topics
Have exercises for all GoF patterns in Java and Ruby. Would like them in C++.
Original Ruby lectures were created this way, before textbooks were available.
With mentoring, idea is to have students work for credit one semester and then a smaller number of them be paid to “mentor other mentors.”
Mentoring of OSS projects
Software applications

4. Research-based independent studies
Micro-credentialing and peer assessment
Machine learning and peer assessment
Visualization of peer-assessment data
A data-mining approach to detecting plagiarism
Reviewing and monitoring literature
In programming languages/frameworks
In peer assessment

5. Rules & Guidelines Work about as much as a regular course.
Record each week
what you have accomplished
what you will do next week.
Meet with us weekly.
Present your work at the end of the semester.