CPSC 203 ITBL Project

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CPSC 203 ITBL Project

• Fall 2005-Fall 2006
• Working with Haskayne School of Business

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Enhance and redesign

• Goals
• provide a course that is relevant to the programs
• allow flexibility for students
• to take advantage of previous experience
• to choose assignment topics

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Our Ideas

• Get information from
• programs
• instructors
• students
• Try online tutorials for flexibility

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203 Instructors

• Want to know
• what do the programs want?
• why do students take the course?
• what are their expectations?
• what resources are available to help us teach and
  assess software skills?

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Who takes 203?

• enrolment data from OIA for 2003-2005
• Interviews with program unit representatives

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Enrolment by Faculty
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Haskayne Enrolment
Required course and prerequisite for MGIS 317 and
MGST 391
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Communication and Culture Enrolment
Most programs in the faculty require a
demonstration of computer competence. CPSC 203
satisfies that. Many (30-40) of the students are
waiting to get into high-demand programs like
management and biology.
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Management Requirements

• Graduates need computer literacy
• Prerequisite skills in Excel and Access
• MGIS 317 do large Access project
• MGST 391 Research and Analysis for Decision
  Making
• Most important topics software, Internet,
  information literacy, security
• Some group work

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CC Requirements

• Graduates need
• Computer literacy
• To understand how computers are used
• Long-term retention of concepts
• Less concerned about skills
• Most important concepts Internet, information
  literacy, computer program development
• Most important skills Blackboard, web search,
  Word

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Survey of Current Students

• some data
• 80 agreed this course is valuable
• preference for talking about concepts to reading
  about
• preference for instruction rather than learning
  on own
• prefer practical projects

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Survey of Past Students

• Ranked most important topics
• software and operating systems
• Internet
• networking and communications
• Least important
• hardware
• computer program development

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Past students

• want
• a very practical course

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Pilot of Online lessons

• for Microsoft PowerPoint tutorials and assignment
  used online lessons and performance-based
  assessment
• two systems used

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Student Experience

• The majority of students agreed that
• The online lessons explained new concepts well.
• The online lessons allowed me to tailor my
  learning to my prior knowledge.
• Overall, I prefer the online lessons to the
  workbook.
• Assessment in this course should combine short
  online quizzes to test fundamental software
  skills with larger integrative assignments to
  test application.

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Student Experience

• The majority of students disagreed with the
  statement
• Assessment in this course should only use larger
  integrative assignments.

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Instructors Discussed Data

• Agreed to use Blackboard
• Try to make course topics and delivery more
  student friendly

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Course topics
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Lecture Hours

• Use the lecture hours less for lecturing and more
  for student centered activities.
• We would like students to read material before
  lecture and discuss during lecture time.
• We will spend more time discussing case studies
  and facilitating student projects and assignments.

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Tutorial Hours

• Want to use online lessons and assessment to
  teach the basic Microsoft Office skills.
• Will use 50 of the tutorial time to facilitate
  the online lessons
• remaining 50 of the time to work on case studies
  and assignments.

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Fall 2006

• A textbook more compatible with the core topics
  has been chosen
• Online lessons and assessment will be used to
  teach Microsoft Office skills
• Assignments are designed around a case study

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THANKS!