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Advance HE Teaching & Learning Conference 2018: Delivering technical modules to technophobic students

Computing covers a range of disciplines from Computer Science to Information Systems. Programming is key to computing regardless of the ‘hard/soft’ scale yet for those who study the softer end the term can strike fear. This creates a self-perception of ‘can’t do it’ which becomes self-fulfilling. This case study examines historical problems of programming delivered to non-technical students and changes implemented resulting in the pass rate moving from 60% to 95%. The session will look at the background to the changes the challenges faced in changing the perception of the students and how academics ‘bought in’ to the change.

Room 375_ST3.7a_Emma-Jane Phillips.pdf
16/07/2018
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Northumbria University

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