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Virtual community of interest at capella university

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Ken A. Baker,

Alan Chmura,

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SIGITE '08: Proceedings of the 9th ACM SIGITE conference on Information technology education

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Among the challenges faced by the administrators of post-baccalaureate degree programs are those of satisfying student needs and wants in ways which cannot be accommodated in the classroom. While every conceivable need and want cannot be addressed by any degree program or school, a subset of needs and wants which contributes to achieving and maintaining a suitable completion rate and improving student perception of the quality of the education experience can be identified.

This paper describes the rationale for and development of a community of interest" (COI) that empowers students, professors, staff members, and other individuals to share, discuss, and reflect on material which may be vital to individuals and their degree programs outside of the formal classroom. Because the COI is to serve an accredited online university, it must be online. Factors that may improve completion rates and student perception of the quality of the education experience are being taken into account in designing the COI.

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Chow TChmura AStinson MCregger NBaker KFriedman R(2010)Implementing a virtual community of interest at Capella UniversityProceedings of the 2010 ACM conference on Information technology education10.1145/1867651.1867668(59-64)Online publication date: 7-Oct-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1867651.1867668

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Virtual community of interest at capella university
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    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Computer science education
        Information science education

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Chow TChmura AStinson MCregger NBaker KFriedman R(2010)Implementing a virtual community of interest at Capella UniversityProceedings of the 2010 ACM conference on Information technology education10.1145/1867651.1867668(59-64)Online publication date: 7-Oct-2010
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