Educational Technology at the Department of Computer Science



	Front Page RESEARCH TOPICS Ethnocomputing Virtual Studies in Computer Science Kids' Club Culture Sensitive IT-Education for Developing Countries Thinking Tools for the Net Software Visualization & Jeliot Development Project for Technology Education String Matching Algorithms for Educational Technology [official page to apper later] WHO & WHAT People @ EdTech Publications @ EdTech CONFERENCES Current ICALT 2004, August 30 - September 1, 2004 2nd International Workshop on Technology for Education in Developing Countries, August 31, 2004. 3rd International Summer School on Educational Technology, August 23 - 27, 2004. Past 3rd Annual Finnish / Baltic Sea Conference on Computer Science Education - Koli Calling, 2003 Second International Conference on Educational Technology in Cultural Context, 2003 2nd International Summer School on Educational Technology, 2003 2nd Annual Finnish / Baltic Sea Conference on Computer Science Education - Koli Calling, 2002 International Conference on Educational Technology in Cultural Context, 2002 International Summer School on Educational Technology, 2002 1st Annual Finnish / Baltic Sea Conference on Computer Science Education - Koli Calling, 2001 1st International Program Visualization Workshop, 2000 FUNDERS University of Joensuu Department of Computer Science @ University of Joensuu Academy of Finland European Commission European Social Fund TEKES - National Technology Agency of Finland	VIRTUAL STUDIES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE Project's web-pages: http://www.cs.joensuu.fi/viscos/index.php?lang=eng Since the fall 2000, the Department of Computer Science at the University of Joensuu began offering a university level Introductory Computer Science Curriculum (called Virtual Approbatur) to high school students in the surrounding rural region of the province of Pohjois-Karjala. In the fall of 2001, we extended this teaching experiment to the rural region of the neighboring province of Etelä-Savo. We have at this moment students from a total of 21 rural high schools. The Curriculum of the Virtual Approbatur Course (22.5 ECTS credit points) includes eight different courses that will give students a basic knowledge of three main domains: Introduction to Computer Science (9 cps) Basics of Programming, Java (9 cps) Preliminaries of Computer Architecture and Operating Systems (4.5 cps). Almost all teaching is carried out via the Internet using a WebCT learning environment.Students work from both printed and web-material, they do weekly assignments, and their learning outcomes are evaluated through an exam. Sirpa Torvinen, firstname.lastname@cs.joensuu.fi Webmaster