In this paper, we investigate how the students think of their experience in a junior (300 level) computer science course that uses blackboard as the underlying course management system. Blackboard’s discussion boards are heavily used for programming project support and to foster cooperation among students to answer their questions/concerns. A survey is conducted through blackboard as a voluntar...

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Teaching in the cyberspace classroom requires that we move beyond old models of pedagogy into new practices that are more facilitative. Teaching in cyberspace involves much more than simply taking old models of pedagogy and transferring them to a different medium. Unlike the face-to-face classroom, in online distance education, attention needs to be paid to the development of a sense of communi...

1 Barry Kort Ph.D., Media Laboratory, M.I.T., 20 Ames Street (E15-020), Cambridge, MA 02139 [email protected] 2 Rob Reilly Ed.D., Media Laboratory, M.I.T., [email protected] .edu Abstract Numerous research studies support the claim that affect plays a critical role in decision-making and performance as it influences cognitive processes. Despite this body of research there is insufficient theor...

This paper recounts a critical classroom experience that occurred when teaching technologybased learning design to trainee teachers, and discusses the implications of the incident for teaching and learning. Observations are drawn from the subject “EDUC261 – Information and Communication Technologies and Education”, which is an optional second year course available to trainee primary and seconda...