TY - GEN
T1 - It's Not What You Think
T2 - 30th IEEE Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training, CSEE and T 2017
AU - Gary, Kevin
AU - Sohoni, Sohum
AU - Lindquist, Timothy
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 IEEE.
PY - 2017/12/4
Y1 - 2017/12/4
N2 - Online education comes in various flavors - skills centered short-duration training, massively open online courses (MOOCs), and more recently, the offering of full online degree programs. In the past 4 years at Arizona State University, the faculty created an online software engineering degree program equivalent to an existing on-campus program, and produced its first graduates in Spring 2017. The challenges in creating this program were significant, but surprisingly the main challenges were not the ones that the faculty anticipated at the outset of the program's development. This paper shares the lessons learned from the development of the online degree program, with an emphasis on the gap between faculty expectations and fears versus the actual issues that needed to be addressed.
AB - Online education comes in various flavors - skills centered short-duration training, massively open online courses (MOOCs), and more recently, the offering of full online degree programs. In the past 4 years at Arizona State University, the faculty created an online software engineering degree program equivalent to an existing on-campus program, and produced its first graduates in Spring 2017. The challenges in creating this program were significant, but surprisingly the main challenges were not the ones that the faculty anticipated at the outset of the program's development. This paper shares the lessons learned from the development of the online degree program, with an emphasis on the gap between faculty expectations and fears versus the actual issues that needed to be addressed.
KW - Online education
KW - Project-based learning
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U2 - 10.1109/CSEET.2017.45
DO - 10.1109/CSEET.2017.45
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85046456844
T3 - Proceedings - 30th IEEE Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training, CSEE and T 2017
SP - 236
EP - 240
BT - Proceedings - 30th IEEE Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training, CSEE and T 2017
A2 - Washizaki, Hironori
A2 - Mead, Nancy
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 7 November 2017 through 9 November 2017
ER -