Contrary to the apparent beliefs of many students, computer programming and problem solving are not amenable to purely book learning. These skills can be acquired only by practice...
Over the past decade Australian and New Zealand educational institutions have experienced a rapid increase in the numbers of "New Arrivals" - immigrant and international...
The advent of Web technology has enabled new ways in which groups of people may interact, leading to the development of online communities. In an academic environment these virtua...
For the last six years, students in the Software Engineering Project course at the University of Tasmania have undertaken projects in teams of four or five members. Since 1998 pee...
ExamGen is a software application developed at Queensland University of Technology to assist instructors with assessment in large classes (250+). The ExamGen program was developed...
Final year students in the Bachelor of Computing complete an industry project where they work in teams to build an IT system for an external client. Grading projects in these circ...
This paper describes the integration of the Personal Software Process (PSP) into an introductory database course in an MIS curriculum. PSP is a highly disciplined, process-based a...
This paper presents a process for evaluating an e-commerce course in order to determine whether the structure and design is appropriate for student learning. Evaluation is importa...
Technological advancement in the Internet and other areas of communication have made the idea of collaborative projects with other people who might be physically located on separa...
Maryam Purvis, Martin K. Purvis, Stephen Cranefiel...
In computer science education, the topic of computing theory is one that is commonly not well received by students. Career-oriented students often view the topic as irrelevant, an...