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Diana Kirk; Andrew Luxton-Reilly; Ewan Tempero – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2025
Objectives: Code style is an important aspect of text-based programming because programs written with good style are considered easier to understand and change and so improve the maintainability of the delivered software product. However teaching code style is complicated by the existence of many style guides and standards that contain…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Programming, Computer Software, Teaching Methods
Johnson, L.; Adams Becker, S.; Hall, C. – New Media Consortium, 2015
The purpose of the report is to inform Australian campus leaders and decision-makers about important developments in technologies supporting teaching, learning, and creative inquiry in tertiary education across the continent. It was produced to explore important developments in technology and forecast their potential impact expressly in an…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Decision Making, College Administration, Educational Technology
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Cerpa, Narciso; And Others – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 1996
Describes two experiments conducted with Australian high school students that investigated the use of self-contained, screen-based material for learning new computer application programs as opposed to using manuals and computer screen information that requires split-attention. Discusses redundancy and the need to reduce extraneous cognitive load.…
Descriptors: Attention, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software
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Hastie, Megan; Chen, Nian-Shing; Kuo, Yen-Hung – Educational Technology & Society, 2007
This paper investigates the correlation between the quality of instructional design and learning outcomes for early childhood students in the online synchronous cyber classroom. Today's generation of e-learners has access to highly engaging and well-designed multi-media synchronous classrooms. However little data exists on what constitutes…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Guides, Demonstration Programs, Instructional Design