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Designing and Implementing a Unique Website Design Project in an Undergraduate Course

Author: George Kontos

Published in: TechTrends | Issue 2/2016

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The following paper describes a distinctive collaborative service-learning project done in an undergraduate class on web design. In this project, students in a web design class contacted local community non-profit organizations to create websites (collections of web pages) to benefit these organizations. The two phases of creating a website, planning and implementation, are an integral part of the project and are explained in this paper. The project, suitable for both online and face-to-face instruction, required that students keep a journal. The instructor did a follow-up investigation to assure that the resulting websites were indeed what the non-profits wanted.

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Title: Designing and Implementing a Unique Website Design Project in an Undergraduate Course
Author: George Kontos
Publication date: 01-03-2016
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: TechTrends / Issue 2/2016
Print ISSN: 8756-3894
Electronic ISSN: 1559-7075
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11528-016-0027-6

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