Title :
Balancing the multimedia mix in a large scale distance education course
Author :
Woodman, Mark ; Taylor, Josie
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Comput. Sci., Middlesex Polytech., London, UK
Abstract :
We describe our experience in deploying the full range of multimedia for a large scale distance education course enrolling over 5000 mature students per year and raise issues about how to effectively balance the types of media. The course introduces computing to both computing majors and non-majors. It represents a radical change in the curriculum, taking a fully object-oriented approach to software development, for example, teaching programming using Smalltalk. The course is large (one sixth of a degree) and the design of materials for the innovative syllabus required experimentation and frequent rebalancing the use of various media. This paper relates the experiences and reflects on the issues encountered
Keywords :
computer science education; distance learning; multimedia systems; programming; software engineering; teaching; Smalltalk; large scale distance education course; multimedia mix balancing; object-oriented approach; software development; teaching programming; Computer aided instruction; Computer networks; Distance learning; Education; Educational technology; Europe; Large-scale systems; Multimedia computing; Programming environments; Software systems;
Conference_Titel :
EUROMICRO Conference, 1999. Proceedings. 25th
Conference_Location :
Milan
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0321-7
DOI :
10.1109/EURMIC.1999.794807
