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Teaching CSCW in developing countries through collaboration

Teaching CSCW in developing countries through collaboration Teaching CSCW in developing countries through collaboration Andrew Thatcher, Lesley-Anne Katz, and David Trepess Teaching technical subjects in developing countries has proven to be a challenge. This is due to deficiencies in technology and knowledge resources, such as a lack of expertise in a field and a lack of up to date literature. These deficiencies have a major impact on the teaching of-subjects such as HCI and CSCW, and have caused universities in developing countries to expand the scope of their teaching resources to form collaborations with other universities through distance leaning technology. This report will focus on experiences of a collaborative project between the University of the Witswatersrand (Wits) in South Africa and Staffordshire University (Staffs) in the UK. The aim of the project was to provide experiential knowledge of CSCW issues through establishing communication channels between the UK and South Africa. Background & Context The main HCI component at Staffs is taught in the School of Computing. At Wits, in the Psychology Department, it is taught as a portion of one undergraduate module and two postgraduate modules. South Africa's recent apartheid history has left Wits with a wide discrepancy in the technological preparedness of black and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png ACM SIGCHI Bulletin Association for Computing Machinery

Teaching CSCW in developing countries through collaboration

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Association for Computing Machinery
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Copyright © 2000 by ACM Inc.
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0736-6906
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10.1145/333329.333347
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Abstract

Teaching CSCW in developing countries through collaboration Andrew Thatcher, Lesley-Anne Katz, and David Trepess Teaching technical subjects in developing countries has proven to be a challenge. This is due to deficiencies in technology and knowledge resources, such as a lack of expertise in a field and a lack of up to date literature. These deficiencies have a major impact on the teaching of-subjects such as HCI and CSCW, and have caused universities in developing countries to expand the scope of their teaching resources to form collaborations with other universities through distance leaning technology. This report will focus on experiences of a collaborative project between the University of the Witswatersrand (Wits) in South Africa and Staffordshire University (Staffs) in the UK. The aim of the project was to provide experiential knowledge of CSCW issues through establishing communication channels between the UK and South Africa. Background & Context The main HCI component at Staffs is taught in the School of Computing. At Wits, in the Psychology Department, it is taught as a portion of one undergraduate module and two postgraduate modules. South Africa's recent apartheid history has left Wits with a wide discrepancy in the technological preparedness of black and

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ACM SIGCHI Bulletin – Association for Computing Machinery

Published: Jan 1, 2000

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