ITR: /Groupware-Mediated Cooperative Programming: Teaching Web Technology to Non-Scientists

Brandeis University, Waltham MA

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Abstract

EIA-0082393 Hickey, Timothy Brandeis University ITR: Groupware-Mediated Cooperative Programming: Teaching Web Technology to Non-Scientists One consequence of the rapid growth of the Internet is the corresponding rapid increase in the demand for teams of software and Web site developers to support the creation of Web content and services. Complicating matters is the need to train large numbers of workers with non-technical backgrounds for the growing electronic workplace. This research explores groupware-mediated cooperative tools to teach IT skills to novices. A same time/different place groupware system will be built, deployed, and experimentally tested that supports collaborative learning of Web development and applet programming for a computer science general service course serving social science, humanities, and fine arts students.