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Lian, Erin; Lin, Jiaju; Zhang, Jiping – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2023
Scratch is widely used as an introductory educational tool for computer programming. However, little is known about how the action of adding favorite projects on Scratch social media influences programming skill improvement. On Scratch social media, learners select personally intriguing projects to view and learn from. Favorite projects both…
Descriptors: Programming, Programming Languages, Skill Development, Social Media
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Jesennia Cárdenas-Cobo; Cristian Vidal-Silva; Lisett Arévalo; Magali Torres – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
The information society is part of current life, and algorithmic thinking and programming are relevant for everybody regardless of educational background. Today's world needs professionals with computing competencies from WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic Societies) and non-WEIRD contexts. Traditional programming…
Descriptors: Programming, Skill Development, Competence, Artificial Intelligence
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Rosziati Ibrahim; Mizani Mohamad Madon; Zhiang Yue Lee; Piraviendran A/L Rajendran; Jahari Abdul Wahab; Faaizah Shahbodin – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2023
This paper discusses the steps involve in project development for developing the mobile application, namely Blood Bank Application and developing the convertor for software testing. The project development is important for Computer Science students for them to learn the important steps in developing the application and testing the reliability of…
Descriptors: Program Administration, Educational Technology, Computer Software, Testing
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Nikolaos Pellas – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2024
Educational technologists and practitioners have made substantial strides in developing affordable digital and tangible resources to support both formal and informal computer science instruction. However, there is a lack of research on practice-based assignments, such as Internet of Things (IoT) projects, that allow undergraduate students to…
Descriptors: Computation, Thinking Skills, Learning Motivation, Academic Persistence
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Umutlu, Duygu – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2022
This qualitative case study was designed to explore pre-service teachers' computational thinking and programming skills in an educational technology course in which block-based programming was introduced in a teacher education program. 12 teacher candidates from different subject areas participated in the study. The findings show that…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Computation, Thinking Skills, Programming Languages
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Regina Célia Coelho; Matheus F. P. Marques; Tiago de Oliveira – Informatics in Education, 2023
Learning programming logic remains an obstacle for students from different academic fields. Considered one of the essential disciplines in the field of Science and Technology, it is vital to investigate the new tools or techniques used in the teaching and learning of Programming Language. This work presents a systematic literature review (SLR) on…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Programming, Computer Science Education, Logical Thinking
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Sanal Kumar T. S.; R. Thandeeswaran – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced a significant increase in the utilization of video-based e-learning platforms for programming education. These platforms never considered the essential attributes of student characteristics and learning preferences while designing such a problematic subject having high dropout and failure rates. The traditional…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Electronic Learning, Higher Education, Programming
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Ladias, Anastasios; Mikropoulos, Aristotelis; Ladias, Demetrios; Bellou, Ioanna – Themes in eLearning, 2021
This paper reports on CodeOrama, a visualization tool that displays the entire source code in a two-dimensional representation created to support the representation of a complex code in block-based programming environments, like Scratch, by using a two-dimension table. CodeOrama can be used by the students for the development of their programs as…
Descriptors: Visualization, Coding, Programming, Programming Languages
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Zha, Shenghua; Jin, Yi; Moore, Pamela; Gaston, Joe – Journal of Digital Learning in Teacher Education, 2020
Informed by the person-object theory of interest, this study deployed a mixed-method concurrent triangulation design and investigated the impact of major/specialization, gender, and module design on preservice teachers' interest in teaching computational thinking. The study was conducted in a flipped computational thinking module hosted in three…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Interests
Király, Sándor; Nehéz, Károly; Hornyák, Olivér – Research in Learning Technology, 2017
Recently, massive open online courses (MOOCs) have been offering a new online approach in the field of distance learning and online education. A typical MOOC course consists of video lectures, reading material and easily accessible tests for students. For a computer programming course, it is important to provide interactive, dynamic, online coding…
Descriptors: Large Group Instruction, Online Courses, Distance Education, Educational Technology
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Valentine, Keri Duncan – Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-based Learning, 2018
With an increased push to integrate coding and computational literacy in K-12 learning environments, teacher educators will need to consider ways they might support preservice teachers (PSTs). This paper details a tinkering approach used to engage PSTs in thinking computationally as they worked with geometric concepts they will be expected to…
Descriptors: Methods Courses, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Educational Technology
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dos Santos Lopes, Maísa Soares; Gomes, Iago Pacheco; Trindade, Roque M. P.; da Silva, Alzira F.; de C. Lima, Antonio C. – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2017
Remote robotics laboratories have been successfully used for engineering education. However, few of them use mobile robots to to teach computer science. This article describes a mobile robot Control and Programming Environment (CPE) and its pedagogical applications. The system comprises a remote laboratory for robotics, an online programming tool,…
Descriptors: Robotics, Programming, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Saltan, Fatih – Journal of Education and Learning, 2017
Online Algorithm Visualization (OAV) is one of the recent developments in the instructional technology field that aims to help students handle difficulties faced when they begin to learn programming. This study aims to investigate the effect of online algorithm visualization on students' achievement in the introduction to programming course. To…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Control Groups, Experimental Groups, Programming
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Majherová, Janka; Králík, Václav – European Journal of Contemporary Education, 2017
In the training of future informatics teachers the students obtain experience with different methods of programming. As well, the students become familiar with programming by using the robotic system Lego Mindstorms. However, the small number of Lego systems available is a limiting factor for the teaching process. Use of virtual robotic…
Descriptors: Programming, Teaching Methods, Instructional Innovation, Preservice Teachers
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Gençtürk, Abdullah Tarik; Korucu, Agah Tugrul – Higher Education Studies, 2017
It is observed that teacher candidates receiving education in the department of Computer and Instructional Technologies Education are not able to gain enough experience and knowledge in "Programming Languages" lesson. The goal of this study is to analyse the effects of web 2.0 technologies usage in programming languages lesson on the…
Descriptors: Web 2.0 Technologies, Programming Languages, Programming, Academic Achievement
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