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It seemed like a good idea at the time

Published: 12 March 2008 Publication History

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We often learn of successful pedagogical experiments, but we seldom hear of the the ones that failed. For this special session we solicited submissions from the SIGCSE membership, selected the best from among these, and will have presentations at the session by the selected authors. Our contributions describe pedagogical approaches that seemed to be good ideas but turned out as failures. Contributors will describe their pedagogical experiment, the rationale for the experiment, evidence of failure, and lessons learned.

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J. Boustedt, R. McCartney, J. Tenenberg, T. Winters, S. Edwards, B. B. Morrison, D. R. Musicant, I. Utting, and C. Zander. It seemed like a good idea at the time In SIGCSE '07: Proceedings of the 38th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education, pages 346--347, New York, NY, USA, 2007. ACM Press.

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SIGCSE '08: Proceedings of the 39th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
March 2008
606 pages
ISBN:9781595937995
DOI:10.1145/1352135
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Published: 12 March 2008

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  1. breakdown
  2. disaster
  3. failure
  4. fiasco
  5. humiliation
  6. termination

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