{"title":"MOOC as semester-long entrance exam","authors":"Arto Vihavainen, Matti Luukkainen, Jaakko Kurhila","doi":"10.1145/2512276.2512305","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2512276.2512305","url":null,"abstract":"MOOCs (massive open online courses) became a hugely popular topic in both academic and non-academic discussions in 2012. Many of the offered MOOCs are somewhat \"watered-down versions\" of the actual courses given by the MOOC professors at their home universities. At the University of Helsinki, Department of Computer Science, our MOOC on introductory programming is exactly the same course as our first programming course on campus. Our MOOC uses the Extreme Apprenticeship (XA) model for programming education, thus ensuring that students are proceeding step-by-step in the desired direction. As an additional twist, we have used our MOOC as an entrance exam to studies in University of Helsinki. In this paper, we compare the student achievement after one year of studies between two cohorts: the MOOC intake (n=38) and the intake that started their studies during the fall (n=68). The results indicate that student achievement is at least as good on the MOOC intake when compared to the normal intake. An additional benefit is that the students admitted via MOOC are less likely to drop out from their studies during their first year.","PeriodicalId":404291,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 14th annual ACM SIGITE conference on Information technology education","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123210114","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Session details: Paper session E1: programming","authors":"Art Gowan","doi":"10.1145/3254714","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3254714","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":404291,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 14th annual ACM SIGITE conference on Information technology education","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123059271","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
H. Ellis, Stoney Jackson, Darci Burdge, G. Hislop, J. Diggs
{"title":"Developing HFOSS projects using integrated teams across levels and institutions","authors":"H. Ellis, Stoney Jackson, Darci Burdge, G. Hislop, J. Diggs","doi":"10.1145/2512276.2512317","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2512276.2512317","url":null,"abstract":"Studies have shown that the \"near peer\" experience where students of various levels are jointly involved in co-learning activities can motivate students and support wide learning. Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software (HFOSS) projects have shown promise for educating students using real-world projects within a global, professional community. Leveraging the near peer experience within an HFOSS project allows beginning students to get earlier exposure to large, complex systems while providing the more advanced students the opportunity to practice communication, coordination, and leadership skills. This poster describes initial steps towards the development of an HFOSS project by a mixed team of students of various levels and from three different institutions..","PeriodicalId":404291,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 14th annual ACM SIGITE conference on Information technology education","volume":"80 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123118225","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Integrating authentic learning into a software development course: an experience report","authors":"E. Brannock, Robert Lutz, Nannette P. Napier","doi":"10.1145/2512276.2512297","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2512276.2512297","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes our experience integrating an authentic learning project into a junior-level software development course. During the course, students applied full software development life cycle processes to meet a campus need -- providing classroom clicker support without purchasing additional hardware. The paper provides the motivation for this approach, summarizes relevant developments in classroom response systems, details the design of the class project, and shares our results. Finally, we offer reflections describing both intended and unintended outcomes of this experiment.","PeriodicalId":404291,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 14th annual ACM SIGITE conference on Information technology education","volume":"40 12","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114022038","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Coordinating artifacts in an online course delivery system","authors":"David Burlinson, M. Doman, Nicholas Grossoehme","doi":"10.1145/2512276.2512320","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2512276.2512320","url":null,"abstract":"Development of online instruction has become a major goal of many universities. There are multiple aspects to delivering an effective online course [Carr-Chellman and Duchastel, 2000]. One of these is to provide guided web based sessions for tutoring, review or introduction of skill development. Materials provided can include question/answers (data), lecture (video), problems (textual input), and others. The instructional delivery of an online course can overlap many of these artifact types. These artifacts, designed to heighten student involvement, can clutter the screen, adding distraction. There is a challenge in concurrently presenting similar concepts of different artifacts in a meaningful way. Our research investigates making the delivery of content through these technologies more effective. By linking review questions to the display of the content delivery, we propose that student attention will be more focused and content retention will increase.","PeriodicalId":404291,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 14th annual ACM SIGITE conference on Information technology education","volume":"83 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122626385","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Session details: Paper session F2: mobile & dojos","authors":"T. Oh","doi":"10.1145/3254717","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3254717","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":404291,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 14th annual ACM SIGITE conference on Information technology education","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127765841","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Supporting adult learning: enablers, barriers, and services","authors":"Chi Zhang, Guangzhi Zheng","doi":"10.1145/2512276.2512323","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2512276.2512323","url":null,"abstract":"Adult learners are a large group for higher education including the computing and information technology programs. This paper provides a structured analysis of enablers and barriers to adult learning based on their characteristics and learning preferences. The paper proposes a general operational framework to support adult learners at different levels in educational institutions. The framework can be used as a guide for organizing adult learning support programs. Implications to IT education for adult learners are also discussed.","PeriodicalId":404291,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 14th annual ACM SIGITE conference on Information technology education","volume":"73 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124676446","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Session details: Paper session G1: student perceptions","authors":"Joel Larson","doi":"10.1145/3254718","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3254718","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":404291,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 14th annual ACM SIGITE conference on Information technology education","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122101165","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Session details: Paper session F1: virtual meetings & machines","authors":"D. Rowe","doi":"10.1145/3254716","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3254716","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":404291,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 14th annual ACM SIGITE conference on Information technology education","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123961164","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Group note taking in mediawiki, a collaborative approach","authors":"Michael Jonas","doi":"10.1145/2512276.2512312","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2512276.2512312","url":null,"abstract":"We present a group note taking project designed to improve student learning. Getting students to actively participate in class can dramatically increase learning outcomes. Traditional lecture methods, where students passively take notes, are not the most effective ways for understanding new material in class. We organized students into groups to record weekly lectures and motivated them through various class based incentives resulting in a living document that captured a semester's worth of class material which helped improve student understanding of the material. We developed the infrastructure to capture these notes using the MediaWiki platform, an easy to use wiki environment. At the University of New Hampshire at Manchester (UNH-M), a commuter college in an urban setting, students tend to be older with their time split between classes and work. For these students, optimally utilizing class time is an important element for success and incorporating active learning methods applied in this work will help develop those skills.","PeriodicalId":404291,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 14th annual ACM SIGITE conference on Information technology education","volume":"91 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126022055","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}