New media, new practices: experiences in open learning course design
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Tools for higher education distance teaching
SIGUCCS '98 Proceedings of the 26th annual ACM SIGUCCS conference on User services
ITiCSE '99 Proceedings of the 4th annual SIGCSE/SIGCUE ITiCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
Formative evaluation scheme for a web-based course design
Proceedings of the 7th annual conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
The Jeliot 2000 program animation system
Computers & Education
ICALT '05 Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies
Establishing a mobile blog system in a distance education environment
International Journal of Mobile Learning and Organisation
A knowledge-driven approach to web-based learning for formal algorithm development
ICWL'10 Proceedings of the 2010 international conference on New horizons in web-based learning
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Distance learning programs have rapidly increased during the past few decades. In fall 2000 the University of Joensuu started to offer distance Computer Science (CS) studies to the high school students in surrounding rural areas of Joensuu. In this program high school students study the first year's university level CS studies over the web simultaneously with their regular high school studies. We describe the creation process of our virtual curriculum which is based the so-called Candle scheme. The Candle scheme search the most essential principles needed in on-line course design, supporting a student locally in her authentic learning needs via electronic tools in a light way. With the Candle scheme we have successfully focused in our design process on the most essential parts of the virtual study process. Our experiences of the Candle scheme in the creation process of the on-line CS program during years 2000-2002 indicate that the scheme is the functional one and expandable to other contexts as well.