Playing with clouds : making web application assessments more realistic
Bruce Allen Scharlau · 2010
This paper describes the reasoning behind introducing more of a problem-based learning approach to the delivery of an advanced computing module, and the lessons learned from this change. In addition a key component of the change was the use of Amazon Web Services and their cloud computing tools, which allow for more adventurous applications to be developed by the students during the term. The basic lesson is open up the assessment to let the students imagination guide their work, and to have a ‘plan b’ ready for when ‘plan a’ does not go as expected due to technology issues, or other external factors.