{"id":3262,"date":"2013-01-09T14:45:22","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T21:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=3262"},"modified":"2014-09-12T11:56:51","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T17:56:51","slug":"what-happens-when-professionals-take-on-line-cs-classes-when-life-and-learning-do-not-fit-computing-education-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2013\/01\/09\/what-happens-when-professionals-take-on-line-cs-classes-when-life-and-learning-do-not-fit-computing-education-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"What happens when professionals take on-line CS classes: When Life and Learning Do Not Fit \u00ab Computing Education Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p>Another great bit of info from Mark Guzdial&#8217;s blog:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Home About Computing Education BlogWhat happens when professionals take on-line CS classes: When Life and Learning Do Not FitJanuary 9, 2013 at 9:46 am Leave a comment The journal article on the research that Klara Benda, Amy Bruckman, and I did finally came out last month the ACM Transactions on Computing Education. The abstract is below. Klara has a background in sociology, and she\u2019s done a great job of blending research from sociology with more traditional education and learning sciences perspectives to explain what happens when working professionals take on-line CS classes. This work has informed our CSLearning4U project significantly, and informs my perspective on MOOCs. We present the results of an interview study investigating student experiences in two online introductory computer science courses. Our theoretical approach is situated at the intersection of two research traditions: distance and adult education research, which tends to be sociologically oriented, and computer science education research, which has strong connections with pedagogy and psychology. The article reviews contributions from both traditions on student failure in the context of higher education, distance and online education as well as introductory computer science. Our research relies on a combination of the two perspectives, which provides useful results for the field of computer science education in general, as well as its online or distance versions. The interviewed students exhibited great diversity in both socio-demographic and educational background. We identified no profiles that predicted student success or failure. At the same time, we found that expectations about programming resulted in challenges of time-management and communication. The time requirements of programming assignments were unpredictable, often disproportionate to expectations, and clashed with the external commitments of adult professionals. Too little communication was available to access adequate instructor help. On the basis of these findings, we suggest instructional design solutions for adult professionals studying introductory computer science education.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/computinged.wordpress.com\/2013\/01\/09\/what-happens-when-professionals-take-on-line-cs-classes-when-life-and-learning-do-not-fit\/\">What happens when professionals take on-line CS classes: When Life and Learning Do Not Fit \u00ab Computing Education Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class='wp_likes' id='wp_likes_post-3262'><a class='like' href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(3262);\" title='' ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-likes\/images\/like.png\" alt='' border='0'\/><\/a><span class='text'>Be the first to like.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='like' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(3262);\">Like<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='unlike' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.unlike(3262);\">Unlike<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span>Another great bit of info from Mark Guzdial&#8217;s blog: Home About Computing Education BlogWhat happens when professionals take on-line CS classes: When Life and Learning Do Not FitJanuary 9, 2013 at 9:46 am Leave a comment The journal article on &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2013\/01\/09\/what-happens-when-professionals-take-on-line-cs-classes-when-life-and-learning-do-not-fit-computing-education-blog\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[353,9,14,81,24],"tags":[6,135,57,393],"class_list":["post-3262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-2","category-educational-technology","category-general","category-information-technology","category-teaching-learning","tag-computer-science","tag-computing-education","tag-elearning","tag-teaching-learning"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Hsb6-QC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2978,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2012\/10\/11\/nyu-using-codeacademy-to-teach-cs-who-got-fired-computing-education-blog\/","url_meta":{"origin":3262,"position":0},"title":"NYU using Codeacademy to Teach CS: Who got fired? \u00ab Computing Education Blog","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"October 11, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"NYU using Codeacademy to Teach CS: Who got fired? \u00ab Computing Education Blog. 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There is great value to learning many languages, not the least of which\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Computers&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Computers","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/category\/computers-2\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1482,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2010\/12\/07\/computational-science-needs-cs-education-but-does-it-need-cs\/","url_meta":{"origin":3262,"position":2},"title":"Computational Science needs CS Education: But Does It Need CS?","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"December 7, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Computer Science is dead (or should be). I love reading Mark Guzdial's blog. He so often talks about things I think are important, AND (perhaps not surprisingly) things about which I have strong opinions. Here's another: Computational Science needs CS Education \u00ab Computing Education Blog. 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The draft is available at the CS2013 website (http:\/\/cs2013.org) or directly at: http:\/\/cs2013.org\/ironman-draft\/cs2013-ironman-v0.8.pdf\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Computers&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Computers","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/category\/computers-2\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1454,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2010\/11\/24\/educational-research-and-the-design-degree\/","url_meta":{"origin":3262,"position":4},"title":"Educational Research and the Design Degree","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"November 24, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Mark Guzdial wrote a thoughtful post yesterday that pondered approaches to educational research that fail to address the domain specificity that lies at the core of so many educational challenges. Computing Education Research vs Real Education Research \u00ab Computing Education Blog. Among other things he mentioned the challenges faced by\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Academia&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Academia","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/category\/academia\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7508,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2021\/07\/26\/i-studied-philosophy-and-engineering-at-university-heres-my-verdict-on-job-relevant-education\/","url_meta":{"origin":3262,"position":5},"title":"I studied philosophy and engineering at university: Here&#8217;s my verdict on &#8216;job relevant&#8217; education","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"July 26, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"This is VERY important. It's why, when I teach CS, I focus on the kinds of skills and concepts that *I* still find useful, 30+years \/after\/ my degree. THOSE are the core concepts. I am NOT training people for jobs. I have NO idea what kinds of jobs they will\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Academia&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Academia","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/category\/academia\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3586,"href":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3262\/revisions\/3586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}