Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Timothy Lindquist, Arizona State University; Harry Koehnemann, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

rationale for the decisions. Thepaper provides others considering similar requirements the experience gained by thisorganization. The study also considered a campus-wide laptop policy, but concluded there weretoo many unanswered questions and risks which are both discussed in the paper.1 IntroductionThe Division of Computing Studies Arizona State University (ASU) at the Polytechnic campusoffers Computer Science programs at both baccalaureate and masters levels. It distinguishesitself from the traditional Computer Science programs on the Tempe campus in two respects.First, the predominance of courses are problem-based, hands-on, and utilize computing best-practice tools, methods and languages. Second, upper-division and graduate offerings earn

Conference Session

Web-Based Education

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Schleter, University of Tennessee-Knoxville; Richard Bennett, University of Tennessee-Knoxville

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

has been an inefficient one which involvedstudents writing solutions on paper, turning the papers in, instructors grading the papers, andreturning the papers back to the students to provide for feedback and evaluation. This process isvery time consuming for a large class, the resulting feedback is generally minimal, and it isdifficult to control copying. This paper will discuss the issues, advantages, and disadvantages ofa custom web-based homework system designed to replace the traditional paper-basedhomework system. This custom system implements most features found in other web-basedsystems such as creation and management of problem libraries, scheduling of assignments,presentation of the problems with randomly assigned parameters for each