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Jaroslaw Pawel Adamiak – Open Praxis, 2024
The academic success of first-year students' learning in science faculties is by no means assured, especially in an Open Distance Learning setting with its limited number of face-to-face encounters between students and lecturers or tutors. Therefore, such encounters should be highly efficient in view of the considerable amount of knowledge…
Descriptors: Fundamental Concepts, Teaching Methods, Computer Science Education, Open Education
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Govender, Reginald Gerald; Govender, Desmond Wesley – African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2021
The emphasis on programming and robotics owing to the unfolding of the Fourth Industrial Revolution on the African continent has led the South African National Department of Education to propose a new subject in Grades R to 9. Hence, the training and development of pre-service teachers is crucial so that they can respond to the skills needed in…
Descriptors: Programming Languages, Computer Science Education, Preservice Teachers, Undergraduate Students
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Coetzee, Bronwynè; Kagee, Ashraf – Africa Education Review, 2021
In psychology departments in South Africa, the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) is routinely used for quantitative analysis. While SPSS has a user-friendly interface, it does not permit application of some of the more sophisticated analytic approaches and therefore has limited functionality. The programming language R can perform…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Faculty Development, Psychology, Programming Languages