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A Skeptic Assesses the Net as a Resource for Teaching

Published:01 December 1999Publication History
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The purpose of the talk (and this paper) is to explore the advantages and disadvantages of providing courses, programs and degrees using On-Line Learning (OLL). It is the author's thesis that, yes, OLL does provide new opportunities for the delivery of education. However, we need to be very careful as to how we use this medium in order not to "reshape" courses which are more effectively taught in other (possibly more traditional) ways nor to embrace this mode of delivery simply for perceived economic gains.The rush of higher education institutions to place courses and programs on the Internet for distance education students raises some very interesting questions concerning their quality and value. The initial development of courses for online learning has been based on text based delivery --- for the most part using traditional lecture notes. The rapid sophistication brought about by html programming, advanced browsers, and template authorware on the one hand, and more sophisticated and powerful hardware and multimedia devices on the other, have permitted great strides in resource integration. Yet, for all of these technological advances, a number of problems still exist. The rest of this paper will explore some of these problems and offer some suggestions for solving them..

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    cover image ACM SIGCSE Bulletin
    ACM SIGCSE Bulletin  Volume 31, Issue 4
    Dec. 1999
    122 pages
    ISSN:0097-8418
    DOI:10.1145/349522
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    • cover image ACM Conferences
      ITiCSE-WGR '99: Working group reports from ITiCSE on Innovation and technology in computer science education
      December 1999
      128 pages
      ISBN:9781450373258
      DOI:10.1145/349316

    Copyright © 1999 ACM

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