Understanding Students' Experiences in an Online Programming Course from a Transactional Distance Perspective

In this paper, we investigate the relationship between student experiences and transactional distance in a 12 week online undergraduate Python programming course. Transactional distance is defined as the psychological and communication space between students and instructors due to geographical separation. Although several studies have examined learning from a transactional distance perspective, there has been a lack of research which describe computing education courses from this perspective.