Teaching advanced Visual Basic .NET in a distributed classroom

Authors:
Mechtild Johnson
Affiliations:
Computer Science Department, University of Wisconsin Washington-County, West Bend, WI
Venue:
DIWEB'06 Proceedings of the 5th WSEAS International Conference on Distance Learning and Web Engineering
Year:
2005

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Abstract

A trend of declining enrollment in Computer Science (CS) is being felt at the 2-year University of Wisconsin (UW) Colleges, and it therefore does not seem an opportune time to expand the CS curriculum. Nevertheless, in 2003 the UW Colleges successfully introduced a new CS course in Advanced Visual Basic .NET, a course offered via distance education to the thirteen UW Colleges, which are geographically spread over the entire state of Wisconsin. Two issues bear examination: first, the success of this course, which is believed to be due to the distributed classroom model adopted for the course, and second, the interest of students in a course which is neither part of the standard CS curriculum, nor easily transferable to the 4-year UW Colleges.