TY - GEN
T1 - Transforming the learning experience of non-traditional students in an online cs1 course through peer-instruction
AU - Rahman, Farzana
AU - Solis, Tiana
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PY - 2020/2/26
Y1 - 2020/2/26
N2 - In the 21st century, Computer science (CS) academic programs are becoming as diverse and innovative as computer science itself. Due to the increasing number of jobs and national demands for more computing professionals, we see a surge of non-traditional students (aged over 25), entering the CS1 course, who already have a degree in a different discipline and work either full-time or part-time. These students have very low retention rate beyond CS1 course. We researched at a large metropolitan public research university, Florida International University (FIU), where we have designed an online CS1 course, integrating peer-instruction, to addresses the divergent background of our student population so they can thrive in computing major/minor, beyond CS1 course. In this poster, we report our findings on how the learning experience of non-traditional students is impacted by the peer-instruction integrated in the online CS1 course.
AB - In the 21st century, Computer science (CS) academic programs are becoming as diverse and innovative as computer science itself. Due to the increasing number of jobs and national demands for more computing professionals, we see a surge of non-traditional students (aged over 25), entering the CS1 course, who already have a degree in a different discipline and work either full-time or part-time. These students have very low retention rate beyond CS1 course. We researched at a large metropolitan public research university, Florida International University (FIU), where we have designed an online CS1 course, integrating peer-instruction, to addresses the divergent background of our student population so they can thrive in computing major/minor, beyond CS1 course. In this poster, we report our findings on how the learning experience of non-traditional students is impacted by the peer-instruction integrated in the online CS1 course.
KW - Active learning
KW - Coding
KW - Cs1
KW - Non-traditional
KW - Peer-instruction
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U2 - 10.1145/3328778.3372591
DO - 10.1145/3328778.3372591
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85081550379
T3 - SIGCSE 2020 - Proceedings of the 51st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education
SP - 1379
BT - SIGCSE 2020 - Proceedings of the 51st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education
T2 - 51st ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, SIGCSE 2020
Y2 - 11 March 2020 through 14 March 2020
ER -