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ACE
2004
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Developing and Implementing a Professional Doctorate in Computing
This paper describes the processes involved in developing and implementing the Doctor of Computing (DComp) programme at UNITEC Institute of Technology. It is the first professiona...
Donald Joyce, Alison Young
ACE
2004
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Uni Cheats Racket: A Case Study in Plagiarism Investigation
Some students cheat by buying solutions to assignments and paying other people to sit their exams. We investigated such a case in 2001, in which around thirty students appear to h...
Justin Zobel
ACE
2004
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Facilitating Successful Online Computing Courses While Minimising Extra Tutor Workload
A key problem in facilitating a successful online course is the highly time -consuming nature of the administrative and pedagogical tasks involved. It is also difficult to achieve...
Stuart Young, Mae McSporran
ACE
2004
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Making Large Class Teaching More Adaptive With the Logic-ITA
1 Adaptive teaching does not usually rhyme with large number of students in class. Given the small amount of face to face and the disproportionate ratio, teachers have to use their...
Kalina Yacef
ACE
2004
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Learning about Software Development - Should Programming Always Come First?
The issues surrounding curriculum design of many Computer Science and Software Engineering degree programs1 are many and complex. In particular, the question of whether prior prog...
Margaret Hamilton, Liz Haywood
ACE
2004
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Conversational KM - Student Driven Learning
A conversational method of teaching whereby the students engage each other as a key part of the learning experience achieves a higher percentage of high grades (and presumably bet...
Marilyn A. Wells, Phillip W. Brook
ACE
2004
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Employer Satisfaction with ICT graduates
As part of a study of the teaching of Information and Communications Technology in Australian universities, employers were surveyed in 2001 to find out how satisfied they were wit...
Dianne Hagan
ACE
2004
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What Drives Curriculum Change?
While promotional literature about computer science programs may claim that curricula are determined by the needs of the students and by international best practice, the reality i...
Paul Gruba, Alistair Moffat, Harald Sønderg...
ACE
2004
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Learning to Program: Spreadsheets, Scripting and HCI
An examination of some recent programming texts indicates that the complexities of modern programming languages and environments have replaced the study of algorithms and programm...
Peter Warren