Attracting communities and students to IT with a community service web contest

SIGITE'08: Proceedings of the 9th ACM SIG-Information Technology Education Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 77-79

  Randolph, Gary B ^a   Owen, Dennis O ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer education enrollment; Engagement; Web contest

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENTS; COMMUNITY SERVICES; COMPUTER EDUCATION ENROLLMENT; ENGAGEMENT; EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING; HIGH SCHOOLS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PROGRAMS; WEB CONTEST; WEB DESIGNS;

STUDENTS; WEBSITES;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 63449105640     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1414558.1414582     Document Type: Conference Paper

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