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Experiences with a synchronous virtual classroom in distance education

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, Volume 40, Issue 3

Pages 194 - 198

https://doi.org/10.1145/1597849.1384324

Published: 30 June 2008 Publication History

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Modern technology offers the tools for having synchronous virtual classes. This paper reports about experiences of such a class in the context of distance education. The paper focuses on the tool as well as on the pedagogy. It outlines the pedagogical approach of the virtual class, which is an adaptation of good practices of face-to-face classes. The results of an experiment are discussed. Strong and weak aspects of synchronous virtual classes are identified.

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin Volume 40, Issue 3

ITiCSE '08

September 2008

362 pages

ISSN:0097-8418

DOI:10.1145/1597849

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ITiCSE '08: Proceedings of the 13th annual conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
June 2008
394 pages
ISBN:9781605580784
DOI:10.1145/1384271
Conference Chairs:
June Amillo
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
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Cary Laxer
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, USA
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Program Chairs:
Ernestina Menasalvas
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
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Alison Young
Unitec, New Zealand

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