文档介绍：THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS AND COLLABORATIVE TOOLS IN WEB-BASED TEACHING OF PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
Nadire Cavus, Huseyin Uzunboylu, Dogan Ibrahim
Near East University, North Cyprus
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ABSTRACT
This paper is about a pilot study which has been carried out at the Near East University during the 2004/05 Fall Semester using the Moodle Learning Management System (LMS) together with GREWPtool collaborative editor. The system has been tested with 36 students taking the Java and the Pascal programming courses. The results of the pilot study showed that a LMS can be made more efficient if it is enhanced by a collaborative learning tool. Our results have also shown that programming languages such as Pascal and Java can be thought essfully in a web-based environment using an LMS system together with a collaborative tool.
Keywords: Learning Management System, Collaborative Tools, Collaborative Learning, Programming Languages, Web-Based Environment.
INTRODUCTION
The term distant education was accepted by the International Council for Correspondence Education in 1972 (Moore, 1990). In recent years a shift has occurred in higher education. The traditional paradigm of a university as an institution that provides teaching is shifting to a new paradigm of the university as an institution that produce