مرکز منطقه ای اطلاع رساني علوم و فناوري - Analyzing the Effect of Computer-Aided Education on the Graduates of Computer Engineering Department

Abstract :

The rapid development of technology has created the need to reorganize the education system by making use of technology other than traditional methods. This study has revealed that students also request a reorganization and that they will be more successful in this way. With the computer-aided education, students perceive information better and keep it easily in their mind. The important point here is that more simple systems and visual aids must be used by considering the fact that computer knowledge of each student would not be equal. In this study, students watched “Administrative Matters, Introduction, Analysis of Algorithms, Insertion Sort, Merge Sort” -the first topic of “Introduction to Algorithms” course, which they cover during their undergraduate education- in the computer-based education system, and they viewed the entries and the other course-related materials in this website. Then, they were given a 17-item questionnaire to examine if the system and the computer-aided education is useful or not. Data were collected from 32 voluntary males and 16 voluntary females who graduated from computer engineering undergraduate program. They ranged in age from 24 to 27. The results obtained from the questionnaire indicated that the computer-aided education is more effective than the traditional education.