Choosing appropriate methods for evaluating and improving the learning process in distance programming courses

Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages

  Meisalo, Veijo ^a   Sutinen, Erkki ^b   Torvinen, Sirpa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Distance learning; Dropouts; Evaluation methods; Programming; Virtual learning

Indexed keywords

EVALUATION METHODS; VIRTUAL LEARNING;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SCIENCE; CURRICULA; DATA ACQUISITION; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; STUDENTS; TEACHING;

DISTANCE EDUCATION;

EID: 1642561574     PISSN: 01905848     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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