Computing Student Success at Montgomery College (MC) in Maryland is deeply rooted to the Web 3.0 era. The success of the Computer Science and Information System students at MC has evolved over time. The various success stories of the Montgomery College students were presented, and the innovative pedagogy that the faculty are using at MC in this Web 3.0 era was explored. Off-course, the rapid and efficient communication among the faculty members, and also among faculty members and the student body was made possible due to the innovative technologies that the Web 3.0 has to offer. Besides, the student success at MC is deeply rooted to the inter-faculty co-operations, and collaborations in and outside of the discipline. Attendees discussed contributions of the Web 3.0 technologies to the Student Success at other institutions as well. As a result, the overall discussion extended to various Maryland institutions besides only the Montgomery College. Faculty attending the session explored innovative, and active learning strategies made possible through Web 3.0. They discussed future undertakings that could have been possible through Web 3.0, and would accelerate the traditionalistic means of pedagogical delivery.

2. Strong Collegial Activities
• Success of the discipline is deeply rooted in strong
teamwork across all three campuses
• Due to the Virtue of the Web 3.0, it was possible to create
dedicated websites for inter-faculty communications,
contributions, co-operations and collaborations
• These 4 C’s have strongly bonded the Discipline specific
faculty together
• Also, the faculty could pursue innovative pedagogies

3. Computer Science
Program Expanded
in 2015
Academic
Restructure took
place in 2014
Metric 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 5-Years
Goals 2020
Enrollment 878 983 1133 1174 1162 1000
Graduation 38 52 76 86 137 65
Transfer 69 102 124 136 160 127
MC’s 2020 CS
Goals
Exceeded in
2016

4. MC’s Core Course TransferabilityProblem:
• For 15 years, UMD did not accept transfer of computer science 1 and computer
science 2 courses directly from Montgomery College.
MC’s Adopted Solution:
•Computing faculty analyzed gaps, which is called the Gap Analysis between MC’s
CS program and UMD’s CS program courses
•MC opened up more frequent Communication channels with UMD Computer
Science faculty
•Increased the program and course standards
•Introduced common midterm and final exams, projects, textbook, and syllabus for
all sections of the core computing courses across all 3 campuses, and also online
•Created enough faculty-led review and prep sessions for students.

5. Semester
1
MC CMSC
Courses
UMD CMSC
Courses
Semester
2
Semester
3
Semester
4
CMSC
203
CMSC
216
Semester
5
Old transfer
entry
CMSC
204
CMSC
140
CMSC
131
CMSC
132
CMSC
216
CMSC
330
Fruits of Our Labor
New transfer
entry after
Fall 2018

6. MC’s Gateway Courses in Computing
 MC’s Computing Programs have 3 Gateway Courses
• The Gateway Course CMSC 203 Computer Science I should be completed with
grade A or B and transferrable as CMSC 201 at UMBC. CMSC 203 is transferrable
to UMD as CMSC 131 if taken Fall 2018 or later
• The Gateway Course CMSC 204 Computer Science II is required to be completed
with grade A or B to be transferrable as CMSC 202 at UMBC. CMSC 204 is
transferrable to UMD as CMSC 132 if taken during the Spring 2019 after CMSC
203 is completed in the Fall 2018 or later or CMSC 131 exemption exam is
passed.
• The Gateway Course CMSC 207 Discrete Structures should be completed with
grade C or above to be transferrable as CMSC 203 at UMBC. CMSC 207 is
transferrable to UMD as CMSC 250 with a grade of C or higher.

7. MC’s Computing Slogan:
Use Technology in
the Classroom
to get Technology
out of the Classroom!

8. Watch-Think-Write-Share Strategy
Students Watch videos posted on
Blackboard
Students Think about questions on the videos
They Write key points and create ONE
question out of the key points
Share in class, jotted down key points and ONE
question they came up with

9. Watch Videos Posted on Blackboard
Link to All
The
Videos
A New Link
in the
Content
Area
An easy Access
to All the Source
code of
examples
presented on
the videos

10. Think about Questions on the Videos
New Link to the class short
quizzes –
instructor use only

11. Write Key Points and Create ONE Question
Upload Assignment
Reflection
Upload
Reflection

12. Share in Class Key Points and ONE Question
Link to Worksheets

13. Learning Tools

14. Edpuzzle
 EdPuzzle is the perfect tool for allowing students to watch and engage with videos
while the teacher gathers data throughout the lesson.
 EdPuzzle is 100% FREE for teachers and students.
 The EdPuzzle is available through https://edpuzzle.com/
 EdPuzzle allows you to make videos of your lesson
 Also, allows to use existing videos from other sites.
 EdPuzzle allows you to Reinforce Accountability – teacher can track
whether the students are watching the videos, and how many times each section, as
well as whether they are understanding the content.
 Enables self-paced learning with interactive lessons.

15. GitHub
 GitHub is a version control system that (VCS)
 GitHub lets users save their code online, track changes of their code (previous
versions), and collaborate with others on a particular project.
 An excellent tool for Team Software Development.
 It was built out of Git, which is also a VCS. Available from: https://github.com/
 GitHub is a required tool to use with the elementary and intermediate level
programming courses, and introductory computing courses at MC beginning with
Spring 2019. In the Fall 2018, it was optional.
 Public repositories are projects that are visible to the entire GitHub community -
good for collaborating with users all over the world.
 Private repositories are only visible to the user that creates it unless they decide to
add collaborators are on the project.

16. IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition
 IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition is a free Java IDE
 Mostly used for Android app development, Java SE & Java programming
 Comes with useful features like JUnit testing, debugging, code inspections, code
completion, etc.
 Ctrl+Shift+Space gives the user a list of the most relevant symbols applicable in the
current context
 Static members completion allows users to easily use static methods or constants.
 Finds duplicate code fragments easily
 Editor-centric environment allows the editor (and the code) as the only thing that is
visible on the user screen
 Download at: https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/download/#section=windows

17. DrJava
 DrJava is a development environment for writing Java programs.
 It has been designed primarily for students.
 Used as a unit testing tool, source level debugger, or for evaluating text of the
program. There is an intelligent program editor.
 Available for free at: http://www.drjava.org/
 DrJava is primarily intended to help students focus more on program design than on
the features of a complicated development environment.
 DrJava provides powerful development tools that are as easy to use as possible.
 Help learners become comfortable with writing Java program by allowing them to
quickly evaluate expressions in DrJava's Interactions Pane.
 Prominent features - Syntax Coloring, Automatic Indentation, Brace Matching, etc.

18. Student Involvements in Computing and Related Activities
• For engaging our CS and IS majors in Computing and related activities, MC’s
Computing Faculty regularly arrange Computing related outer curricular activities
• Here are couple of examples:
•Has created a student-led Computing Club called the Software Development Club
•Each year in Fall, the Software Development Club in co-operation with MC’s
Computing Faculty organizes the Day of Code
•Day of Code is loaded with computing related fun and learning activities
•Increased the program and course standards
•Other Coding Competition, and Coding-related activities

19. Soon Available on :
purpleplan.tk
Visit http://purpleplan.tk
Now Available
Created by Students

20. The Purple Plan Mobile App

21. The Main Features of Purple Plan – Mobile App
 Students can always edit their
plan after it is completed
 The Plan warns if the students are
missing the Global Perspective
Class or Math Elective.
 The plan also knows which math
elective transfers to which school
 Students can also easily contact
their department advisors and
share/export their plan.

22. MC Computing Sciences - Future Endeavor
Assessment/Evaluation-Related Undertakings:
Monitor 2019 critical numbers! Want MC students to
complete and transfer to 4-year schools. Research
reveals that transfer efforts bring completion up.
Transfer Efforts: MC’s Computing Faculty is working
on new courses. All efforts dedicated to first two
years complete at MC and transfer at Junior standing.

23. MC Computing Sciences - Future Endeavor
Continued.
Continue engagement of the MC’s Computing
students in and out of the classroom to Computing
related activities
Actively implement Culturally Responsive Teaching
for the student engagement and motivation at
Montgomery College