Towards Massively Open Online Virtual Internships in Computing Education

Pillutla, Ravi Shankar; S, Lalit Mohan; Choppella, Venkatesh; Jesrani, Avni; Raman, Priya; Reddy, Y. Raghu

doi:10.1109/t4e.2019.00-44

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“…Guidance is needed to direct this different type of delivery of new learning opportunities (Briant and Crowther, 2020). The literature has investigated the virtual internship in the distance and online learnings (Goldsmith and Martin, 2009;DeWitt and Rogers, 2009;Larkin and Beatson, 2014;Pike, 2015;Bayerlein, 2015;Smith, 2015;Medeiros et al, 2015;Jeske and Axtell, 2016;Sykes and Roy, 2017;Petit and Ntebutse, 2017;Bayerlein and Jeske, 2018;Pillutla et al, 2019). These studies were reviewed to assist in planning for the current program and aiming to ensure best practices.…”

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“…The literature has investigated the virtual internship in the distance and online learnings (Goldsmith and Martin, 2009; DeWitt and Rogers, 2009; Larkin and Beatson, 2014; Pike, 2015; Bayerlein, 2015; Smith, 2015; Medeiros et al. , 2015; Jeske and Axtell, 2016; Sykes and Roy, 2017; Petit and Ntebutse, 2017; Bayerlein and Jeske, 2018; Pillutla et al. , 2019).…”

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Virtual internship during the COVID-19 pandemic: exploring IT students satisfaction

AlGhamdi

2022

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PurposeThis paper examined the evaluation of the virtual internship program for KAU IT students during the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020 summer.Design/methodology/approachA mixed-method survey was utilized for the data collection. Out of 164 enrolled students in the 2020 summer training program, 147 students opted to participate. This gives a response rate of 89.6% of the total students' number who could participate. In addition to collecting quantitative data, qualitative data were collected. The sources for qualitative data were survey open questions, weekly reflective writing and video recordings.FindingsThe quantitative result showed that the students were satisfied with their virtual internship. These results were further qualitatively explored and discussed under five themes: information and knowledge, work experience, live interaction, the comfort of achieving tasks and soft skills. The outcomes showed that the plan which offered students opportunities to be trained online with real companies accomplishing real work tasks was the best in fulfilling the requirements of the internship. Thus, it emphasized the importance of a strong alliance with the industry to provide useful virtual internship opportunities.Research limitations/implicationsThough this study made a novel contribution to the timely literature on the COVID-19 pandemic, it is not without its limitations. The difference in the three sample sizes makes it difficult to get in-depth comparative analysis. For future research, it is highly recommended to study the impact of online training with real existing companies on a relatively larger sample number.Practical implicationsIn order for a higher educational institute to successfully adopt the proposed plans for the virtual internship, here are the reflections and lessons learned from our three plans. (1) Emphasize your efforts on extending your partnership with the private sector and computing industry. (2) The MCIT training focuses on developing technical skills; therefore, it is great to be offered to students in the computing field as extracurricular activities but not as the fulfillment of the internship program. (3) Blackboard training sessions, which cover nontechnical skills, are good to be offered prior to the internship.Social implicationsFor governmental human resource agencies, it is highly recommended to further develop and invest in manpower to develop online platforms. In normal situations, these platforms act as an extra training resource. In abnormal situations such as the COVID-19 pandemic, they act as useful source for online training. For students, this sudden unexpected transition from normal to online training should enrich them with the ability to be flexible and adaptive, tune them with opportunities for independent and innovative creative work, encourage them to take risks and provide them with opportunities to do things differently. As an outcome, students will enhance their self-efficacy and capabilities.Originality/valueDue to the COVID-19 pandemic, not only classes and internship programs have been done remotely but increasingly jobs have also gone in that direction. A virtual internship today might be good preparation for the virtual/remote work of tomorrow. For this reason, this study was conducted to add a novel contribution to the virtual internship literature.

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Virtual internship during the COVID-19 pandemic: exploring IT students satisfaction

AlGhamdi

2022

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Smart Community Model using TOGAF to Help Higher Education Students on Internship Program

Chandra

Supangkat

2020

2020 International Conference on ICT for Smart Society (ICISS)

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UNEXPECTED DRIFTS & CHALLENGES IN TEACHING-LEARNING PRACTICES: ONLINE INTERNSHIP OF TRAINEE TEACHERS

Mahajan

Vadeyar

2022

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Internship lays the foundation to development of teaching skills, application of pedagogy & gaining confidence in classroom instructions. Post-Covid, educators were nearly compelled to embrace technology causing an unforeseen transition from in-person to online mode. This study is the primary step to our ongoing study and survey on the impact of COVID19 on the teacher education program. Internship is a well-accepted active learning method for trainee teachers. The objective is to understand the challenges faced by trainee teachers during online internship & to discuss the measures to overcome some of these challenges. During internship trainee teachers can develop their interactions & lesson planning abilities, to understand their students in a better way. An abrupt transition from offline to online mode implied many challenges and overcoming huge obstacles. Few challenges discussed are shirking traditional mindset to embrace virtual classrooms, lack of infrastructure and facilities for shifting to online teaching, non-availability of schools & inadequate number of lessons for trainees, less than expected exposure to classroom teaching and so forth. Some of the possible measures are planning more practice lessons among peer groups, observations by peers & experts, arranging guidance by experts, videos of lessons by trainees etc. Through this program, trainee teachers are molded to understand subject content, broadening of mindsets, practices in pedagogy, psychology of students etc. Internship plays a crucial role in imbibing appropriate skills & attitude in future teachers. The question that arises is- can online internships adequately prepare trainees to handle situations that arise in T-L contexts?

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Towards Massively Open Online Virtual Internships in Computing Education

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Virtual internship during the COVID-19 pandemic: exploring IT students satisfaction

Virtual internship during the COVID-19 pandemic: exploring IT students satisfaction

Smart Community Model using TOGAF to Help Higher Education Students on Internship Program

UNEXPECTED DRIFTS & CHALLENGES IN TEACHING-LEARNING PRACTICES: ONLINE INTERNSHIP OF TRAINEE TEACHERS

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