Increasing Consonance and Resonance in Agile Teaching Methodologies

In a cooperative environment technical excellence and high quality students’ artifacts is what Computer Science teachers strive to achieve while educating students and facing the challenges of this new century. When agile techniques and accelerators and injected in the process in a cooperative environment the consonance and resonance in groups increases. This speeds up the learning process and the quality of the material produced by the students improves. Two observational studies at Kent State University at Stark and Ohio University are described in this paper. The studies observe the usefulness of using agile teaching techniques and analyze the quality of deliverables produced. A post questionnaire gathered students’ feedback. The observation shows that cooperative learning produces better results than individual learning however consonance and resonance must be reached before the speed is achieved.