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Direct linkFields, Deborah A.; Kafai, Yasmin B.; Morales-Navarro, Luis; Walker, Justice T. – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2021
Much attention in constructionism has focused on designing tools and activities that support learners in designing fully finished and functional applications and artefacts to be shared with others. But helping students learn to debug their applications often takes on a surprisingly more instructionist stance by giving them checklists, teaching…
Descriptors: High School Students, Design, Programming, Textiles Instruction
Dohn, Niels Bonderup – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2020
The ability to code computer programs is considered an important part of literacy in today's society. This paper reports from a case study in two sixth-grade classes where Scratch coding was part of six mathematics lessons. The aim of the study was to investigate how Scratch coding affected students' interest development in coding and in…
Descriptors: Coding, Secondary School Students, Mathematics Instruction, Student Interests
Liyanagunawardena, Tharindu Rekha; Lundqvist, Karsten Øster; Williams, Shirley Ann – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2015
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) attract learners with a variety of backgrounds. Engaging them using game development was trialled in a beginner's programming course, "Begin programming: build your first mobile game," on FutureLearn platform. The course has completed two iterations: first in autumn 2013 and second in spring 2014 with…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Computer Games, Programming, Student Surveys
Feng, Chia-Yen; Chen, Ming-Puu – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2014
The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of goal specificity and scaffolding on the programming performance and self-regulation of elementary students engaged in learning game design. This study recruited 232 students for the experimental activities. Two levels of goal specificity were employed: specific and nonspecific.…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Elementary School Students, Educational Games
Hew, Khe Foon – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2016
Although past research has sought to identify the factors of student engagement in traditional online courses, two questions remained largely unanswered with regard to Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs): do the factors that could influence student engagement in traditional online courses also apply to online courses that are massive and open?…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Learner Engagement, Large Group Instruction, Learning Experience
