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João Alberto Arantes do Amaral; Izabel Patricia Meister; Alessandro dos Santos Faria; Felipe Mancini; Valeria Sperduti Lima; Luciano Gamez – Journal of Open, Flexible and Distance Learning, 2025
This article presents our findings concerning a MOOC named 'Introduction to R programming language', in which we applied design thinking combined with problem-based learning to enhance student engagement and improve the learning experience. The course was delivered to 575 students from Brazil between February 28 and March 18, 2022. Our goal was to…
Descriptors: Design, Thinking Skills, Problem Based Learning, MOOCs
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Seralidou, Eleni; Douligeris, Christos – Education and Information Technologies, 2021
The effective teaching of the concept of programming, where critical thinking is an important factor, is not so easy in secondary education. New teaching approaches, including, game-based learning, may provide a solution due to their inclusion of more fun and diverse activities but they still lack the active participation of the students in the…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Programming, Programming Languages, Educational Games
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Sykes, Edward R. – Technology, Instruction, Cognition and Learning, 2010
The Java Intelligent Tutoring System (JITS) research project explored the power of a new approach to supporting beginner Java programming students. Using Java's grammar as the core of its production rule base, JITS is embedded with extra functionality to detect, predict and correct lexicographical errors in students' code. This additional…
Descriptors: Programming Languages, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Design, Programming