Online discussions: Improving education in CS?

SIGCSE 2014 - Proceedings of the 45th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 409-414

  Mihail, Radu P ^a   Rubin, Beth ^b   Goldsmith, Judy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asynchronous discussions; Online discussions; Student blogs; Web enabled courses

Indexed keywords

DISTANCE EDUCATION; STUDENTS;

ASYNCHRONOUS DISCUSSIONS; ASYNCHRONOUS ONLINE DISCUSSION; COMPUTER SCIENCE COURSE; EXPLORATORY STUDIES; ON-LINE EDUCATION; ONLINE DISCUSSIONS; TECHNICAL GRAPHICS; WEB-ENABLED COURSES;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84899740422     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2538862.2538898     Document Type: Conference Paper

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