TY - GEN
T1 - Assessing student views of traditional, free, and interactive modifications for an introductory networking course
AU - Seeling, Patrick
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 IEEE.
PY - 2015/12/2
Y1 - 2015/12/2
N2 - Common questions faced by instructors in their course designs are how to incorporate interactive technologies to increase student motivation as well as limiting the costs associated with education, contributed predominantly through course textbooks. We describe two course changes from a baseline scenario for a networking course, which aim at making the course no-cost using public domain content or, alternatively, focus on making the course highly interactive. We find that course cost benefits were offset by shortcomings in the open-source material replacing the textbook, but that the additional course costs of an interactive course are offset by increased course and learning perceptions reported by students. The focus on instructional interactivity, however, left the hands-on components up to students, with a potentially negative impact on the perceived quality of instruction.
AB - Common questions faced by instructors in their course designs are how to incorporate interactive technologies to increase student motivation as well as limiting the costs associated with education, contributed predominantly through course textbooks. We describe two course changes from a baseline scenario for a networking course, which aim at making the course no-cost using public domain content or, alternatively, focus on making the course highly interactive. We find that course cost benefits were offset by shortcomings in the open-source material replacing the textbook, but that the additional course costs of an interactive course are offset by increased course and learning perceptions reported by students. The focus on instructional interactivity, however, left the hands-on components up to students, with a potentially negative impact on the perceived quality of instruction.
KW - Communication engineering education
KW - Computer science education
KW - student perceptions
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84960368941&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/FIE.2015.7344286
DO - 10.1109/FIE.2015.7344286
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84960368941
T3 - Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE
BT - 2015 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2015 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE 2015
Y2 - 21 October 2015 through 24 October 2015
ER -