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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Student Engagement in First Year of an ICT Degree: Staff and Student Perceptions
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Sheard, Judy; Carbone, Angela; Hurst, A. J. – Computer Science Education, 2010
This article reports on a study of student engagement in the first year of their undergraduate information and communication technology (ICT) degree at an Australian university. The study was conducted at Monash University in the four undergraduate ICT degrees of the Faculty of Information Technology. The study draws on data collected from staff…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Motivation, Learning Experience, Student Experience
Computer Science and IT Teachers' Conceptions of Successful and Unsuccessful Teaching: A Phenomenographic Study
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Carbone, Angela; Mannila, Linda; Fitzgerald, Sue – Computer Science Education, 2007
In this paper we present the results of a phenomenographic study revealing the conceptions of successful and unsuccessful teaching among information and communication technology, information technology (IT), and computer science academics. We examine ways in which the understandings of IT teachers are similar to or differ from other teachers in…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Information Technology, Teacher Attitudes, Computer Science Education