We describe how we redesigned, because of the 2020 COVID-19
pandemic, the CS1 course for Math undergraduates to be held online
yet reflecting the face-to-face (F2F) experience as much as
possible. We present the course structure, the IT tools we used, and
the strategies we implemented to preserve the benefits of a synchronous
experience. We discuss the positive and negative aspects
that emerged from the students’ opinion qualitative analysis. We
use the COI framework as a lens to explain what worked, what
did not, and what can be improved to strengthen the perception of
a F2F experience and mitigate the “presence paradox” we found:
despite students being enthusiastic about the online format, most
would still prefer a F2F course.
%0 Journal Article
%1 michael2021online
%A Michael, Lodi
%A Marco, Sbaraglia
%A Pio, Zingaro Stefano
%A Simone, Martini
%D 2021
%E on Information Technology for Social Good, Conference
%J GoodIT ’21: Conference on Information Technology for Social Good
%K Course Online face-to-Face
%P 242-247
%T The Online Course Was Great: I Would Attend It Face-to-Face
%X We describe how we redesigned, because of the 2020 COVID-19
pandemic, the CS1 course for Math undergraduates to be held online
yet reflecting the face-to-face (F2F) experience as much as
possible. We present the course structure, the IT tools we used, and
the strategies we implemented to preserve the benefits of a synchronous
experience. We discuss the positive and negative aspects
that emerged from the students’ opinion qualitative analysis. We
use the COI framework as a lens to explain what worked, what
did not, and what can be improved to strengthen the perception of
a F2F experience and mitigate the “presence paradox” we found:
despite students being enthusiastic about the online format, most
would still prefer a F2F course.
@article{michael2021online,
abstract = {We describe how we redesigned, because of the 2020 COVID-19
pandemic, the CS1 course for Math undergraduates to be held online
yet reflecting the face-to-face (F2F) experience as much as
possible. We present the course structure, the IT tools we used, and
the strategies we implemented to preserve the benefits of a synchronous
experience. We discuss the positive and negative aspects
that emerged from the students’ opinion qualitative analysis. We
use the COI framework as a lens to explain what worked, what
did not, and what can be improved to strengthen the perception of
a F2F experience and mitigate the “presence paradox” we found:
despite students being enthusiastic about the online format, most
would still prefer a F2F course.},
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author = {Michael, Lodi and Marco, Sbaraglia and Pio, Zingaro Stefano and Simone, Martini},
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editor = {on Information Technology for Social Good, Conference},
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journal = {GoodIT ’21: Conference on Information Technology for Social Good},
keywords = {Course Online face-to-Face},
language = {English},
month = {September},
pages = {242-247},
timestamp = {2023-07-01T12:17:47.000+0200},
title = {The Online Course Was Great: I Would Attend It Face-to-Face},
year = 2021
}