This paper describes the processes involved in developing and implementing the Doctor of Computing (DComp) programme at UNITEC Institute of Technology. It is the first professiona...
Some students cheat by buying solutions to assignments and paying other people to sit their exams. We investigated such a case in 2001, in which around thirty students appear to h...
A key problem in facilitating a successful online course is the highly time -consuming nature of the administrative and pedagogical tasks involved. It is also difficult to achieve...
1 Adaptive teaching does not usually rhyme with large number of students in class. Given the small amount of face to face and the disproportionate ratio, teachers have to use their...
The issues surrounding curriculum design of many Computer Science and Software Engineering degree programs1 are many and complex. In particular, the question of whether prior prog...
A conversational method of teaching whereby the students engage each other as a key part of the learning experience achieves a higher percentage of high grades (and presumably bet...
As part of a study of the teaching of Information and Communications Technology in Australian universities, employers were surveyed in 2001 to find out how satisfied they were wit...
While promotional literature about computer science programs may claim that curricula are determined by the needs of the students and by international best practice, the reality i...
An examination of some recent programming texts indicates that the complexities of modern programming languages and environments have replaced the study of algorithms and programm...