Computer science as a field requires curricular guidance, as new innovations are filtered into teaching its knowledge areas at a rapid pace. Furthermore, another trend is the growing number of students with different cultural backgrounds. These developments require taking into account both the differences in learning styles and teaching methods in practice in the development of curricular knowledge areas. In this paper, an intensive collaborative teaching concept, Code Camp, is utilized to illustrate the effect of learning styles on the success of a course. Code Camp teaching concept promotes collaborative learning and multiple skills and knowledge in a single course context. The results indicate that Code Camp as a concept is well liked, increases motivation to learn and is suitable for both intuitive and reflective learners. Furthermore, it appears to provide interesting creative challenges and pushes students to collaborate and work as a team. In particular, the concept also promotes intuition.
A discussion of some key Bakhtinian and Volosinovian notions and nudges towards their possible utility. These ideas might re-define character in theatre performances.
C. Coffin. NALDIC Quarterly, 3 (3):
13--26(2006)<b>Copyright</b><br></br>Copyright for individual contributions remains vested in the authors to whom applications for rights toreproduce should be made. NALDIC Quarterly should always be acknowledged as the original source ofpublication.NALDIC retains the right to republish any of the contributions in this issue in future NALDIC publicationsor to make them available in electronic form for the benefit of its members. For further information contactpublications@naldic.org.uk.