Mary Ann Drayton
ABSTRACT
Computer short course students are as heterogeneous a group as can be imagined in a college classroom. At Northern Illinois University we teach novices who are professional students; you can spot them by their sharpened, poised pencils and fresh notebooks. We teach the old computer pros who want information on some new system feature or compiler. We teach graduate students who feel they will face this monster called a “computer” once in their lifetime—they have a limited, specific and worthy goal, but it's not computer knowledge. And we teach administrative personnel whose paychecks are contingent upon the mastery of short course content.
Index Terms
- Modularized short courses
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