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The winds of change: students' comfort level in different learning environments
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The winds of change: students' comfort level in different learning environments

Kathryn Lynch and S Markham
Proceedings of the 8th annual conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education, pp.70-73
Annual conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education (ITiCSE), 8th (Thessaloniki, Greece, 2003)
Association for Computer Machinery
2003
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/961511.961533
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Other Information and Computing Sciences student satisfaction learning environments
The information technology workforce now more than ever requires graduates to be ready to 'produce' the instant they 'hit the ground'. The core discipline knowledge and skills haven't changed dramatically over the years, but the 'soft skills' have changed and have become more important than ever. Undergraduate information technology degree must prepare graduates for the workforce, and not just transmit the discipline knowledge for them to achieve 'academically'. To ward off this, a change is required in the pedagogy, and consequently the learning environment for information technology students. With this is mind, Monash University introduced a studio model of teaching and learning into its Bachelor of Information Systems degree program. During the three years of the program students are confronted with two very different pedagogical models of teaching and learning. Seventy five percent of the program is taught in a traditional manner, the remaining twenty five percent is taught within a studio context.The first section of the paper briefly outlines a crude description of the traditional learning environment and the studio learning environment underpinning the IT studio-model that is used in the Bachelor of Information Systems at Monash University. The second section of the paper reports on a quantitative research study that examined students' opinions of which type of model (studio or non-studio) best meets their learning needs.

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