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Huijuan Fu; Yangcai Xiao; Isaac Kofi Mensah; Rui Wang – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
The nation's explosive growth in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) is likely to lead to low effectiveness of MOOCs, therefore, it is necessary to promote the high-quality and long-term development of MOOCs through understanding learner satisfaction. The present research adopted the Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) to derive factors affecting…
Descriptors: Student Satisfaction, MOOCs, Computer Science Education, Curriculum Design
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Gutiérrez, Luz E.; Guerrero, Carlos A.; López-Ospina, Héctor A. – Education and Information Technologies, 2022
This study describes the most relevant problems and solutions found in the literature on teaching and learning of object-oriented programming (OOP). The identification of the problem was based on tertiary studies from the IEEE Xplore, Scopus, ACM Digital Library and Science Direct repositories. The problems and solutions identified were ranked…
Descriptors: Programming, Comprehension, Computer Science Education, Computer Software
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Blažic, Borka Jerman – Education and Information Technologies, 2022
Recruiting, retaining, and maintaining sufficient numbers of cybersecurity professionals in the workplace is a constant battle, not only for the technical side of cybersecurity, but also for the overlooked area of non-technical, managerial-related jobs in the cyber sector. The problem is the lack of cybersecurity skills in the European labour…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Science Education, Computer Security, Information Security
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Jun-Ming Su – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
With the rapid growth of web applications, web application security (WAS) has become an important cybersecurity issue. For effective WAS protection, it is necessary to cultivate and train personnel, especially beginners, to develop correct concepts and practical hands-on abilities through cybersecurity education. At present, many methods offer…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Information Security, Computer Security, Web Sites
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Humble, Niklas – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
Due to increased need of professionals on the future labour market with competence in programming, many countries have integrated programming in kindergarten to grade 12 (K-12) education. In 2017, programming was integrated in Swedish primary and secondary school curriculum and the courses of Mathematics and Technology. Research has highlighted…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Mathematics Instruction, Programming, Teaching Methods
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Xinogalos, Stelios; Pitner, Tomáš; Ivanovic, Mirjana; Savic, Miloš – Education and Information Technologies, 2018
The choice of the first programming language (FPL) has been a controversial issue for several decades. Nearly everyone agrees that the FPL is important and affects students' subsequent education on programming. The study presented in this article investigates the suitability of various C-like and Pascal-like programming languages as a FPL.…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Programming Languages, Computer Software, Questionnaires
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Friedman, Alon – Education and Information Technologies, 2019
Learning analytics is an emerging field in which educators and researchers are using data to improve their students' educational experiences. One of the most common courses offered by higher academic institutions in the US is data science. This paper examines the data science syllabi found in today's academic sector and compares the results to…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Comparative Analysis, Data Analysis, Educational Experience
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Amasha, Mohamed A.; Abougalala, Rania A.; Reeves, Ahmad J.; Alkhalaf, Salem – Education and Information Technologies, 2018
The main purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of integration of online learning and assessment in synchronization form (OLASF) on students' learning performance. The study seeks to evaluate how the synchronization content with immediate assessment can affect the knowledge performance of the students. An experimental design with…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Computer Assisted Testing, Course Content, Academic Achievement