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Pierrot, Laëtitia; Michel, Christine; Broisin, Julien; Guin, Nathalie; Lefevre, Marie; Venant, Rémi – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2021
Implementing remote and blended higher education courses motivated the design for new support services for autonomous learning. Thus, combining a competence-based approach and self-regulation, the COMPER project offers a service to be used in addition to the courses. It consists of a graphical presentation of the learners' competency profile…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Learning Strategies, Blended Learning, Distance Education
Moser, Scott; Smith, Phil – Association Supporting Computer Users in Education, 2015
Most online courses are offered as "asynchronous" courses and have no real-time contact with students. The Synchronous online alternative provides normal scheduled class time and allows students to login to a virtual online classroom with the instructor. We provide an overview of two different platforms for hosting synchronous classes…
Descriptors: Educational Benefits, Online Courses, Synchronous Communication, Virtual Classrooms
Hundley, Jacqueline Holliday – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Although the two-year curriculum guide includes coverage of all eight software engineering core topics, the computer science courses taught in Alabama community colleges limit student exposure to the programming, or coding, phase of the software development lifecycle and offer little experience in requirements analysis, design, testing, and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Curriculum, Computer Science Education, Computer Software
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Bunch, John M. – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2009
This paper presents a goal-based scenario approach to teaching introductory database concepts to undergraduates using two different scaffolding methods. One method, termed "worked-out examples," attempts to reduce extraneous cognitive load by requiring students to complete increasingly complex missing parts of worked out examples. The other…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Undergraduate Students, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique)