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The Online Course Was Great: I Would Attend It Face-to-Face: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly of IT in Emergency Remote Teaching of CS1

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Marco Sbaraglia,

Stefano Pio Zingaro,

Simone MartiniAuthors Info & Claims

GoodIT '21: Proceedings of the Conference on Information Technology for Social Good

Pages 242 - 247

https://doi.org/10.1145/3462203.3475902

Published: 09 September 2021 Publication History

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We describe how we redesigned, because of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, the CS1 course for Math undergraduates to be held online yet reflecting the face-to-face (F2F) experience as much as possible. We present the course structure, the IT tools we used, and the strategies we implemented to preserve the benefits of a synchronous experience. We discuss the positive and negative aspects that emerged from the students' opinion qualitative analysis. We use the COI framework as a lens to explain what worked, what did not, and what can be improved to strengthen the perception of a F2F experience and mitigate the "presence paradox" we found: despite students being enthusiastic about the online format, most would still prefer a F2F course.

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Carlon MBoonyubol SKeerativoranan NCross J(2023)Educational Data Science Approach for an End-to-End Quality Assurance Process for Building Creditworthy Online CoursesEducational Data Science: Essentials, Approaches, and Tendencies10.1007/978-981-99-0026-8_4(151-191)Online publication date: 30-Apr-2023
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-0026-8_4

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The Online Course Was Great: I Would Attend It Face-to-Face: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly of IT in Emergency Remote Teaching of CS1
1. Applied computing
  1. Education
    1. Distance learning
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Computer science education
        CS1

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Carlon MBoonyubol SKeerativoranan NCross J(2023)Educational Data Science Approach for an End-to-End Quality Assurance Process for Building Creditworthy Online CoursesEducational Data Science: Essentials, Approaches, and Tendencies10.1007/978-981-99-0026-8_4(151-191)Online publication date: 30-Apr-2023
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