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Enriching a Course with Web Resources: a Case Study

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The web offers a lot of resources that might be useful in higher education. This paper describes the experiences with a course that offers a lot of links to web resources. These resources are meant as enriching existing content and are announced as optional. The context is distance education. Through a survey we gained insight into the actual use of the web resources and in the appreciation of the different types of resources. Findings indicate that students differed greatly in their actual use of resources and also in their preferences. Many students preferred resources that could make them study efficiently, such as videos with summaries of subject matter or explanations of hard topics. Students benefitted from links to web resources that go together with relevant information about the resource, in order to be able to make sensible decisions whether to access a resource or not.

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ITiCSE '15: Proceedings of the 2015 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education
June 2015
370 pages
ISBN:9781450334402
DOI:10.1145/2729094
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  1. distance learning
  2. massive open online course (MOOC)
  3. open educational resources (OER)
  4. web resources

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  • (2023)Granular or Long: Influence of the Content Structure on Student Interaction with Learning Materials2023 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE)10.1109/FIE58773.2023.10343030(1-8)Online publication date: 18-Oct-2023

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