Increasing learning and decreasing costs in a computer fluency course
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This paper presents the results of a redesign of a large enrollment computer fluency course for non computer science majors. The goals of the redesign were to increase learning and to decrease costs using technology. The paper discusses the motivations and the components of the course redesign. The results show that costs did decrease and that learning did increase in the redesigned course.
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June 2002262 pagesISBN:1581134991DOI:10.1145/544414- Conference Chairs:
- Michael E. Caspersen,
- Dan Joyce,
- Program Chairs:
- Don Goelman,
- Ian Utting
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Published: 24 June 2002
Published in SIGCSE Volume 34, Issue 3
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