Implementing the Rensselaer 80/20 Model in professional education

Author

Bowman, Greg ; Danchak, Michael M. ; LaCombe, Mary ; Porter, Don

Author_Institution

Rensselaer Polytech. Inst., Troy, NY, USA

Volume

1

fYear

2000

fDate

6/22/1905 12:00:00 AM

Abstract

The Rensselaer 80/20 Model combines both asynchronous and synchronous activities to create a complete course. Asynchrony utilizes the World Wide Web and has students doing activities on their time and at their location. Synchrony brings students together in time for complementary activities using any number of technologies. The paper describes the application of the Rensselaer 80/20 Model to a course in Object-Oriented User Interface Development (OOUID) that is a part of our professional master´s program. It brings together the “GuideOnTheSide” for asynchronous learning and a synchronous software product called LearnLinc both pioneered at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Keywords

computer science education; distance learning; information resources; object-oriented programming; teaching; user interfaces; GuideOnTheSide; LearnLinc; OOUID course; Object-Oriented User Interface Development; Rensselaer 80/20 Model; World Wide Web; asynchronous activities; asynchronous learning; complementary activities; professional education; professional masters program; synchronous activities; synchronous software product; Application software; Bandwidth; Computer aided instruction; Electronic mail; Object oriented modeling; Problem-solving; Software packages; User interfaces; Virtual groups; Web sites;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Frontiers in Education Conference, 2000. FIE 2000. 30th Annual

ISSN

0190-5848

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6424-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FIE.2000.897650

Filename

897650