Our Media Computation approach was explicitly design to address this issue - we use it to teach our required course for Liberal Arts, Architecture, and Business students. Our papers on the approach can be found at http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/mediaComp-teach/12
We have written an ICER paper about how we convinced students to buy into this: http://home.cc.gatech.edu/allison/uploads/3/guzdial2006.pdf Cheers, Mark --------- Sent from mobile device -- please excuse typos On Apr 22, 2013, at 3:15 AM, "Gergely Buday" <gbu...@gmail.com<mailto:gbu...@gmail.com>> wrote: 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).
