Distance Teaching of Informatics
Gintautas Grigas · Journal of Research on Computing in Education · 1994
Teaching of informatics, especially distance teaching of informatics by electronic mail (e-mail), is discussed. Informatics is more than simply a computer science, because it includes some aspects of communication between people, too. Different means of communication between a teacher and a student, as well as between peers, are analyzed. The suitability of various modes of communication for distance teaching of two main parts of informatics—algorithmization (problem solving) and programming—as well as pedagogical and economic criteria, is discussed. Differences between teaching of informatics and other school subjects are considered.