Hello, Keith Whittington at Rochester Institute of Technology (Rochester, NY, USA) has done some good work using creative active learning techniques to motivate students, teach programming, and encourage discussion and class participation. Several years ago I had an opportunity to interview some of his students, and they were very enthusiastic about his approach to teaching introductory programming. -- Susan Rothwell Adjunct Instructor, Finger Lakes Community College Ph.D. Candidate, Syracuse University In a message dated 4/22/2013 3:15:16 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, gbu...@gmail.com writes:
Hi, I teach programming to students who do not really know why they came into the course called business informatics, who are not really versed in mathematics and, possibly because of these, are not motivated to do hard work grasping the concepts and to hack a lot. I feel that they are not fond of problem solving, even in the everyday sense: some of them do not care if they meet a problem, just give up. I guess some of you were faced to this problem, so ask: how can I motivate these students? What is a must to read on this topic? - Gergely -- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302).
