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From Experiences using TangoInteractive in Distance Education Education Session SC98 Orlando -- November 8-12 1998. by Nancy McCracken


1 Success: students successfully completed the course with programming homework assignments and received passing grades.
2 Success: students liked course in "leading edge" technology otherwise not available to them
  • Job fair employers were looking for Java/Web programming skills.
3 Technology transfer was successful: during last year, a JSU professor attended the course and is now teaching it at JSU, plans are for him to teach the course at another HBCU in the spring via Tango.
4 Challenge: but the students felt that the distance lectures were not as successful as in-class lectures.
  • Questionnaires suggest due to network interruptions and not as much personal interaction.

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