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

Volume

2

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

406

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

EUROMICRO Conference, 1999. Proceedings. 25th

Conference_Location

Milan

ISSN

1089-6503

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0321-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EURMIC.1999.794807

Filename

794807