Although higher education institutions offer self-paced massive open online courses (MOOCs) on platforms like edX, little systematic effort has been made to examine their instructional design features. The purpose of this study was, therefore, to review self-paced MOOCs on edX and examine their instructional design features for those interested in…

Contribution: A technical course in a multidisciplinary university program has to provide high-level skills, with limited lecturing hours and student background. This article investigates the principles for its design and reports about a study case. Background: The overall course organization needs to address specific learning targets and teaching…

Implementing remote and blended higher education courses motivated the design for new support services for autonomous learning. Thus, combining a competence-based approach and self-regulation, the COMPER project offers a service to be used in addition to the courses. It consists of a graphical presentation of the learners' competency profile…

A sample of 114 traditional and 35 nontraditional undergraduates provided demographic information and indicated perceptions of course prerequisites, lecture/instruction, and laboratory assistance. Nontraditional students needed more academic assistance in microcomputer classes and labs; they were uneasy about competing with recent high school…

Describes a new approach to teaching computer science students through the use of workshops that was developed at Sunderland Polytechnic (England). The course structure is explained, workshops' content and organization are described, an example of a workshop is given, and student and staff reactions are discussed. (11 references) (LRW)

The objectives of an innovative teaching model implemented in a course at Northwest Missouri State University Department of Science/Information System are to: (1) use the Total Quality Management (TQM) concept in course design and implementation in the MIS (management information systems) curriculum; (2) develop attitudes and behaviors associated…

Our department has redesigned its electrical engineering and computer engineering programs completely by adopting a learning methodology based on competence development, problem solving, and the realization of design projects. In this article, we show how this pedagogical approach has been successfully used for learning compiler design.