Gašper Strniša, ŠC Kranj, Kranj
Managing their own learning process is especially important for students who are, due to their extra-curricular activities, absent a lot from hours of regular classes. A particular challenge for both students and teachers, represents a correspondence learning and teaching, especially in subjects for which there are no prescribed textbooks. One of such objects is also computer programming at a technical grammar schools. This paper shows an example where the third-year student of Specialist grammar school, School centre Kranj, which also carries a parallel study at the University of Music and related arts in Graz, carried out obligations towards the school subject computer science through correspondence learning. Her teacher looked up and verified the courses that cover the content of the curriculum object computing and in online education platform edX developed by American universities MIT and Harvard, which operates on the principle of massive open online courses (MOOC). Student then at her own choice of time and place independently completed all the content of the course Programming in Java. Therefore she obtained a certificate of the University Carlos III of Madrid and a grade for her school subject.
