Media Arts and Science Program at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

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As of 2009, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) reports 28,756 students enrolled. Just over 10,000 of those students are listed as part time students (under 9 credit hours). IUPUI is made up of a total minority student population of close to 5,000. Just over 16,000 students are classified as 24 years of age or younger while over 12,500 students are 25 years of age or older.

Nearly 700 students are enrolled in the Informatics degree program at IUPUI with 540 at the undergraduate level and 157 at the graduate level. Of the nearly 700 students, over half (365) are enrolled in the Media Arts and Science program, with 340 at the undergraduate level and 25 at the graduate level. Almost 70% of the students enrolled in the Media Arts and Science Program are full time students, with 35% of those students in the Media Arts and Science Program at 25 years of age or older. Of the 340 undergraduate students in the Media Arts and Science program at IUPUI, 93 are part time students, 71 are a minority race and 113 are 25 years of age or older.

To summarize, the undergraduate student population at IUPUI is comprised of a heterogeneous group of learners: commuting students, older adult students, online students, on-campus students, and first-generation college students. These students come from a range of diverse backgrounds. Therefore, the average IUPUI student experience can vary greatly when compared to campus life at a traditional, four-year residency college or university.

N100

The course in which the research was conducted is N100, and it is an introductory course in the Media Arts and Science program under the Indiana University School of Informatics at IUPUI. It is a large lecture course that is held in...

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...ut it is suggested so that students are able to put names to faces during live lecture. The social network is divided into two types of forums: the course forum and the casual forum. In the course forum, the students discuss the lectures and the reading material. In the casual forum, the students connect to classmates just as in Facebook. The course is split into three sections. In each section of the course, you are required to start at least 1 new forum thread on a reading or lecture issue, and respond to another person’s forum thread on a reading or lecture issue. You can also fully participate in the casual forum to get to know your classmates and discover similar interests and share ideas, but you are only going to be evaluated on the postings in the course forum. Course forum threads, posted in each section of the course, are cumulatively worth 100 points.

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