TY - GEN
T1 - Understanding Barriers and Motivations of Non-Traditional Students Learning Programming in an Online CS1 Course
AU - Rahman, Farzana
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 ACM.
PY - 2020/10/7
Y1 - 2020/10/7
N2 - Due to the increasing number of computing jobs and national demands, we are seeing a surge of non-traditional students (aged over 25), entering the online CS1 courses. We are at a large metropolitan public research university, where 30% of the students are non-traditional students. However, the online CS1 course usually consists of 70-75% of non-traditional students. We carried out a study in that course for the last 5 semesters where we interviewed non-traditional students to better understand their characteristics and how those are related to their learning goals and performance. This paper is an attempt to identify the unique characteristics of non-traditional students that can help Computing-ED researchers and admins to design online CS1 courses with appropriate pedagogy, so a better learning experience can be provided to them and their retention rates can be increased.
AB - Due to the increasing number of computing jobs and national demands, we are seeing a surge of non-traditional students (aged over 25), entering the online CS1 courses. We are at a large metropolitan public research university, where 30% of the students are non-traditional students. However, the online CS1 course usually consists of 70-75% of non-traditional students. We carried out a study in that course for the last 5 semesters where we interviewed non-traditional students to better understand their characteristics and how those are related to their learning goals and performance. This paper is an attempt to identify the unique characteristics of non-traditional students that can help Computing-ED researchers and admins to design online CS1 courses with appropriate pedagogy, so a better learning experience can be provided to them and their retention rates can be increased.
KW - cs1
KW - diversity
KW - non-traditional students
KW - programming
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U2 - 10.1145/3368308.3415455
DO - 10.1145/3368308.3415455
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85094883271
T3 - SIGITE 2020 - Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference on Information Technology Education
SP - 38
EP - 41
BT - SIGITE 2020 - Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference on Information Technology Education
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
T2 - 21st Annual Conference of the Special Interest Group in Information Technology Education, SIGITE 2020
Y2 - 7 October 2020 through 9 October 2020
ER -