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One of the major challenges in tertiary education is to design the lectures such that students will be motivated to attend and get really interested which will ignite their passion for knowledge. For this regard, City University of Hong Kong has proposed to apply a discovery enriched curriculum (DEC) in developing teaching and learning activities to encourage students discover knowledge that is new to the students themselves. In this paper, we shared our experience about how the DEC was adopted in an introductory course on webpage programming to some freshmen students who had diverse technical backgrounds. Some webpage examples made by the instructor were used to stimulate students’ interest. These examples were designed so that they were related to students’ daily life to illustrate how things around them could be implemented in practice. The class has recorded a relative high attendance rate of around 75%. The relation between the average quiz marks and the number of lectures attended by the students was examined and the result indicated that the students who attended more lectures tended to obtain higher average quiz marks.
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Leung, H., Li, Z., Zhao, J. (2013). Igniting Students’ Passion for Knowledge by Incorporating a Discovery Enriched Curriculum. In: Wang, JF., Lau, R. (eds) Advances in Web-Based Learning – ICWL 2013. ICWL 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8167. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41175-5_9
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