Search results for author:"John Carroll"
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A Case Library for Teaching Usability Engineering: Design Rationale, Development, and Classroom Experience
John M. Carroll; Mary Beth Rosson
Journal on Educational Resources in Computing Vol. 5, No. 1 (March 2005)
Case studies of professional software development practices describe how real (or realistic) projects are planned and executed. Cases provide engaging models of the activities and materials of software development to students and other novice...
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Orientation of Undergraduates toward Careers in the Computer and Information Sciences: Gender, Self-Efficacy and Social Support
Mary Beth Rosson; John M. Carroll; Hansa Sinha
ACM Transactions on Computing Education Vol. 11, No. 3 (October 2011)
Researchers have been working to understand the factors that may be contributing to low rates of participation by women and other minorities in the computer and information sciences (CIS). We describe a multivariate investigation of male and female...
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Frameworks for Sharing Teaching Practices
John M. Carroll; Mary Beth Rosson; Dan Dunlap; Philip Isenhour
Educational Technology & Society Vol. 8, No. 3 (2005) pp. 162–175
In many organizations, collaborating with peers, sharing resources, and codifying know-how are not typical facets of work activity. For such organizations, knowledge management support must help people identify and orient to opportunities for...
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wConnect: Cultivating a Landscape of Online Places for a Developmental Learning Community
Mary Beth Rosson; Hansa Sinha; Dejin Zhao; John Carroll; Craig Ganoe; Jan Mahar
Journal of Educational Technology & Society Vol. 12, No. 4 (2009) pp. 87–97
We describe our work on seeding and building a developmental learning community for recruiting and retaining women in educational programs and careers related to computing and information science (CIS). Our approach is explicitly participatory: we...
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MOOsburg: Multi-User Domain Support for a Community Network
John M. Carroll; Mary Beth Rosson; Philip L. Isenhour; Christina Van Metre; Wendy A. Schafer; Craig H. Ganoe
Internet Research Vol. 11, No. 1 (2001) pp. 65–73
Explains MOOsburg, a community-oriented MOO that models the geography of the town of Blacksburg, Virginia and is designed to be used by local residents. Highlights include the software architecture; client-server communication; spatial database;...