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ACE
2004
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Conversational KM - Student Driven Learning
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...
Marilyn A. Wells, Phillip W. Brook
ACE
2004
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Employer Satisfaction with ICT graduates
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...
Dianne Hagan
ACE
2004
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What Drives Curriculum Change?
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...
Paul Gruba, Alistair Moffat, Harald Sønderg...
ACE
2004
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Learning to Program: Spreadsheets, Scripting and HCI
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...
Peter Warren
ACE
2004
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Strategies for Communication Skills Development
As the scope of computer science continues to expand and move further into inter-disciplinary research, we see communication skills development (CSD) gain prominence in tertiary c...
Paul Gruba, Reem Al-Mahmood
ACE
2004
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Integrating Ethical Content Into Computing Curricula
This paper contributes to the ongoing dialogue about the inclusion of ethics content within computing education. It presents a brief exposition of the challenges facing the teachi...
Tony Greening, Judy Kay, Bob Kummerfeld
ACE
2004
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Flexible Learning - Maximising Flexibility in a Subject with Large Student Numbers
In providing the introductory computing subject (topic) Information Technology 1A to approximately 800 students per annum in three different modes, a number of delivery mechanisms...
Robert Goodwin, Neville Williams
ACE
2004
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Applying SPICE to e-Learning: An e-Learning Maturity Model?
The Capability Maturity Model and SPICE approach to software process improvement has resulted in a robust system for improving development process capability in the field of softw...
Stephen Marshall, Geoff Mitchell
ACE
2004
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Static Analysis of Students' Java Programs
A recent industry survey (Townhidnejad and Hilburn, 2002) has reported that more than fifty percent of a software project's budget is spent on activities related to improving...
Nghi Truong, Paul Roe, Peter Bancroft