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| Computing:
An Object-Oriented Approach -- Transforming Computing to Object Technology
Mark Woodman and Rob Griffiths, Open University |
| After four years of development,
the distance learning institution, the Open University (OU), has launched its flagship
course Computing: an Object-Oriented Approach--a radical introduction to designing and
writing complex software systems. It goes beyond what any organisation has attempted by
providing to ordinary users of computer systems the resources to become developers of them
by teaching them to use Object Technology from ground zero. Utilising Web technology and
our version of the state-of-the-art Smalltalk programming and learning environment,
LearningWorks, the course defines computing for thousands of people per year and redefines
it for others. The initial 'class' size for this first year of the 440-hour course was
over 5,100 students. With students typically aged 37 and in middle management, the social
and educational impact will be both dramatic and immediate. In 1999 an additional 700 will
take the course at the Singapore Institute of Management, and other educational
institutions are currently negotiating to adopt the course.
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