Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Virginia Univ., Charlottesville, VA
Abstract :
CS453, Electronic Commerce Technologies, is an elective course taken primarily by computer science and computer engineering students in their senior year. The course was originally offered using a traditional lecture plus homework approach, but with support from NSF DUE CCLI we added a hands-on programming laboratory that met three hours per week and provided mentored learning for HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Perl, CGI, SQL, and PHP. Students liked the material but objected to the inflexible weekly format. With additional university support we transitioned to virtual labs that better aligned the students´ experience with the 24/7 nature of the Internet. In fall 2005 we will compare one group using these virtual labs with another group using Tablet PCs, Conference XP, and OneNote
Keywords :
computer aided instruction; computer science education; educational courses; electronic commerce; teaching; CGI; CS453; CSS; HTML; JavaScript; NSF DUE CCLI; OneNote; PHP; Perl; SQL; computer engineering students; computer science students; conference XP; hands-on programming laboratory; tablet PCs; teaching electronic commerce; virtual labs; Cascading style sheets; Computer science; Education; Electronic commerce; Engineering students; HTML; Internet; Java; Laboratories; Personal communication networks; electronic commerce; software laboratory; virtual labs;
