TY - GEN
T1 - The professor on your PC
T2 - 2009 ACM SIGCSE Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE-2009
AU - Gal-Ezer, Judith
AU - Vilner, Tamar
AU - Zur, Ela
N1 - ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, vol. 41, issue 3, 191-195
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - The Open University of Israel, a distance education institution with open admissions, offers a study system that was primarily based on written material. When we designed the new CS1 course in 2005, shifting from C++ to Java, we also switched from a course based on written material, to one based on videotaped lectures, which the students watch on PCs. Shifting to Java is an enormous challenge, however, we were also concerned about the new study method. Therefore, we conducted a study to determine how the students respond to the new and different environment, in terms of both learning and technical operation. The findings show that this method of study is at least as efficient as the previous one. The students' attitude to the new study method was positive and supportive of the new approach.
AB - The Open University of Israel, a distance education institution with open admissions, offers a study system that was primarily based on written material. When we designed the new CS1 course in 2005, shifting from C++ to Java, we also switched from a course based on written material, to one based on videotaped lectures, which the students watch on PCs. Shifting to Java is an enormous challenge, however, we were also concerned about the new study method. Therefore, we conducted a study to determine how the students respond to the new and different environment, in terms of both learning and technical operation. The findings show that this method of study is at least as efficient as the previous one. The students' attitude to the new study method was positive and supportive of the new approach.
KW - CS1
KW - Videotaped lectures vs. books
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77049104907&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/1562877.1562938
DO - 10.1145/1562877.1562938
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AN - SCOPUS:77049104907
SN - 9781605583815
T3 - Proceedings of the Conference on Integrating Technology into Computer Science Education, ITiCSE
SP - 191
EP - 195
BT - ITiCSE-2009 - Proceedings of the 2009 ACM SIGCSE Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education
Y2 - 6 July 2009 through 8 July 2009
ER -