CIS 310 Assessment

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CIS 310 Assessment

• Spring 2004
• Megan Conklin

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Topics grades

• Fundamentals of Dreamweaver
• Web design
• User interface HCI
• Interaction design

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Empirical Observations

• Students enjoyed Dreamweaver.
• Students improved a great deal over the course of
  the semester in the quality of their sites.
• It is possible to teach the class with a
  significant portion of theory and minimize focus
  on the tool. Critical thinking grant will
  support a continuation of this trend.
• Important meetings with MMA team led to better
  understanding of what should be covered in this
  course. Specifically coverage of interfaces is
  very important.
• Real projects worked well. This knowledge will
  help improve the 320 and 325 courses in the Fall.

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Recommendations for Next Year

• Change books (already have book picked out)
• More small graded projects
• More graded labs
• Blog worked well but final blog grade did not
  work well as a metric
• More reworking of initial assignments after new
  skills are learned
• More projects we return to again and again rather
  than new stuff