A comparative analysis of design principles for project-based IT courses

John C. Grundy

doi:10.1145/299359.299384

A comparative analysis of design principles for project-based IT courses

John C. Grundy

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Project-based courses have become increasingly popular in Information Technology (IT) curricula. We have found the design of such courses needs to take into account a variety of desired learning outcomes in order to maximise the effectiveness of such courses. This paper describes four quite different project-based courses we have developed and run over several years, and are continuing to develop. We compare and contrast the different course objectives, group management, project characteristics, course content and student assessment used in these courses. We also reflect on the evolution of these courses and how feedback from different kinds of course evaluation is used to continue their refinement. We have our experiences will be useful for others designing or refining their own project based courses.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2nd Australasian Conference on Computer Science Education, ACSE 1997
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	170-177
Number of pages	8
Volume	Part F129322
ISBN (Electronic)	0897919580
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/299359.299384
Publication status	Published - 2 Jul 1997
Externally published	Yes
Event	Australasian Conference on Computer Science Education 1997 - Melborne, Australia Duration: 2 Jul 1997 → 4 Jul 1997 Conference number: 2nd https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/299359 (Proceedings)

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Conference	Australasian Conference on Computer Science Education 1997
Abbreviated title	ACSE 1997
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Melborne
Period	2/07/97 → 4/07/97
Internet address	https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/299359 (Proceedings)

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Grundy, JC 1997, A comparative analysis of design principles for project-based IT courses. in Proceedings of the 2nd Australasian Conference on Computer Science Education, ACSE 1997. vol. Part F129322, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), pp. 170-177, Australasian Conference on Computer Science Education 1997, Melborne, Victoria, Australia, 2/07/97. https://doi.org/10.1145/299359.299384

A comparative analysis of design principles for project-based IT courses. / Grundy, John C.

Proceedings of the 2nd Australasian Conference on Computer Science Education, ACSE 1997. Vol. Part F129322 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 1997. p. 170-177.

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