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Computing laboratories and the small community college: defining the directed computing laboratory in the small college computing environment

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The small community college faces a unique set of challenges in laboratory implementation. This paper identifies the computing environment at a particular small community college, discusses the instructional content desired by the college, surveys various approaches to laboratories, and offers the approach that the college is using to implement appropriate instructional computing labs. The suggested approach provides for both an “OPEN” and “SCHEDULED” lab, promotes instructor freedom as no one lab approach is dictated by the lab setup, allows directed labs where they are appropriate and documents that class contact hours are set according to standards.

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          cover image ACM SIGCSE Bulletin
          ACM SIGCSE Bulletin  Volume 26, Issue 1
          March 1994
          410 pages
          ISSN:0097-8418
          DOI:10.1145/191033
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            SIGCSE '94: Proceedings of the twenty-fifth SIGCSE symposium on Computer science education
            March 1994
            414 pages
            ISBN:0897916468
            DOI:10.1145/191029

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