EDUCacheIC: Interactive and collaborative successor of the EDUCache simulator

Author

Ristov, Sasko ; Atanasovski, B. ; Gusev, Marjan ; Anchev, N.

Author_Institution

Fac. of Inf. Sci. & Comput. Eng., Ss. Cyril & Methodius Univ., Skopje, Macedonia

fYear

2013

fDate

25-27 Sept. 2013

Firstpage

360

Lastpage

366

Abstract

Introducing our EDUCache simulator [1] in the Computer Architecture and Organization course increased the students willingness to learn more details about CPU cache memory. A positive experience of students interest to work on laboratory exercises with our EDUCache simulator lead us to develop an EDUCacheIC, a new interactive and collaborative version of EDUCache simulator. EDUCacheIC offers the students to work in a group with one student member of the group having a role as a teacher. The student - teacher creates a CPU architecture and tasks for other students in the group. This interactive and collaborative simulator will improve the learning and teaching process of the Computer Architecture and Organization course reducing the teacher´s efforts during the laboratory exercises.

Keywords

cache storage; computer aided instruction; computer architecture; computer science education; educational courses; groupware; interactive systems; teaching; CPU architecture; CPU cache memory; Computer Architecture and Organization course; EDUCache simulator; EDUCacheIC; collaborative simulator; interactive simulator; laboratory exercises; learning process; teachers effort reduction; teaching process; Cache memory; Collaboration; Computer architecture; Educational institutions; Laboratories; Organizations; CPU; Cache; Computer Architecture and Organization; Education; Multiprocessor;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Interactive Collaborative Learning (ICL), 2013 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kazan

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICL.2013.6644599

Filename

6644599