Abstract: Large size classes provide unique challenges to instructors. In classrooms of seventy-five or more students, these challenges include maintaining effective student contact and providing the student with a feeling of 'personalized' instruction. This paper details several of the unique problems found in teaching classes with large enrollments, and implements the use of a Computer Mediated Communications (CMC) system to meet these challenges. It ends with a student satisfaction survey where it was demonstrated that a CMC system improves student satiifaction in this environment.

Keywords: Computer mediated communications (CMC), Instructional technology, Large size classes, Student satisfaction, Class management

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Recommended Citation: Janicki, T. & Steinberg, G. (1999). Improving Student Satisfaction in Large-sized Classes through a Computer Mediated Communications System. Journal of Information Systems Education, 10(2), 8-12.