Computing laboratories and the small community college: defining the directed computing laboratory in the small college computing environment

Authors:
Robert L. Tureman, Jr.
Affiliations:
Computer Information Systems Department, Paul D. Camp Community College, Franklin Virginia
Venue:
SIGCSE '94 Proceedings of the twenty-fifth SIGCSE symposium on Computer science education
Year:
1994

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Abstract

The small community college faces a unique set of challenges in laboratory implementation. This paper identifies the computing environment at a particular small community college, discusses the instructional content desired by the college, surveys various approaches to laboratories, and offers the approach that the college is using to implement appropriate instructional computing labs. The suggested approach provides for both an “OPEN” and “SCHEDULED” lab, promotes instructor freedom as no one lab approach is dictated by the lab setup, allows directed labs where they are appropriate and documents that class contact hours are set according to standards.