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A Purposeful MOOC to Alleviate Insufficient CS Education in Finnish Schools
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Kurhila, Jaakko; Vihavainen, Arto – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2015
The Finnish national school curriculum, effective from 2004, does not include any topics related to Computer Science (CS). To alleviate the problem that school students are not able to study CS-related topics, the Department of Computer Science at the University of Helsinki prepared a completely online course that is open to pupils and students in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Online Courses, Computer Science, Computer Science Education