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Wuxue Jiang; Ying Zhan; Daner Sun; Jin Sun; Peiyao Tian – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
Higher vocational education has been on a trajectory of rapid development. However, the challenge of fostering effective learning in students persists. In response to this, a study was undertaken to explore the impact of an optimized model of SPOC-based blended learning (SPOC-BL) on student presence, learning satisfaction, learning motivation, and…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Higher Education, Vocational Schools, Blended Learning
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Ramírez-Donoso, Luis; Pérez-Sanagustín, Mar; Neyem, Andrés; Alario-Hoyos, Carlos; Hilliger, Isabel; Rojos, Felipe – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
Over the past years, higher education institutions have been exploring different mechanisms to adapt their learning and teaching practices to increase students' engagement. One of the proposals has been to reuse Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) as Small Online Private Courses (SPOCs), or as complementary resources in traditional courses through…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Electronic Learning, Cooperative Learning, Gamification
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I-Fan Liu; Hui-Chun Hung; Che-Tien Liang – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
With the rise of big data, artificial intelligence, and other emerging information technologies, an increasing number of students without computer science (CS) backgrounds have begun to learn programming. Programming is considered a complex task for beginners, and instructors find it difficult to quickly address all the problems that students…
Descriptors: Programming, Student Attitudes, Blended Learning, Video Technology
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Chiang, Tosti Hsu-Cheng – Interactive Learning Environments, 2017
Programing is difficult for beginners because they need to learn the new language of computers. Developing software, especially complex software, is bound to result in problems, frustration, and the need to think in new ways. Identifying the learning behavior behind programing by way of empirical studies can help beginners learn more easily. In…
Descriptors: Programming, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Problem Solving
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Pellas, Nikolaos – Interactive Learning Environments, 2017
The combination of Open Sim and Scratch4OS can be a worthwhile innovation for introductory programming courses, using a Community of Inquiry (CoI) model as a theoretical instructional design framework. This empirical study had a threefold purpose to present: (a) an instructional design framework for the beneficial formalization of a virtual…
Descriptors: Educational Indicators, Communities of Practice, Computer Simulation, High School Students