Design of an educational multimedia library to teach Python to non-technical university students

Andrea Valente; Emanuela Marchetti; Jingyun Wang

doi:10.1109/IIAI-AAI50415.2020.00041

Design of an educational multimedia library to teach Python to non-technical university students

Andrea Valente, Emanuela Marchetti, Jingyun Wang

Durham University

Publikation: Kapitel i bog/rapport/konference-proceeding › Konferencebidrag i proceedings › Forskning › peer review

Abstract

Starting from our teaching experience and previous research on programming for non-technical university students in Japan and Denmark, we identify an unarticulated dependency of programming materials from other technical domains, which causes a knowledge domain mismatch in learners. We approach
this mismatch on two fronts: by defining a novel way to structure beginners courses that moves away from the classic bottom-up approach based on math-related problems, and instead leverages on multimedia as a motivational and powerful general-purpose domain to ground programming and scaffold its understanding; and via the design and implementation of new Python library that
simplifies multimedia programming. We are currently organizing tests of both multimedia library and the new course structure in Japan and Denmark.

Originalsprog	Engelsk
Titel	9th International Congress on Advanced Applied Informatics (IIAI-AAI)
Redaktører	Panayiotis Zaphiris, Andri Ioannou
Forlag	IEEE
Publikationsdato	2020
Sider	169-175
Artikelnummer	9430399
ISBN (Trykt)	978-1-7281-7398-6
ISBN (Elektronisk)	978-1-7281-7397-9
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1109/IIAI-AAI50415.2020.00041
Status	Udgivet - 2020
Begivenhed	9th International Congress on Advanced Applied Informatics (IIAI-AAI) - Kitakyushu, Japan Varighed: 1. sep. 2020 → 15. sep. 2020 Konferencens nummer: 9

Konference

Konference	9th International Congress on Advanced Applied Informatics (IIAI-AAI)
Nummer	9
Land/Område	Japan
By	Kitakyushu
Periode	01/09/2020 → 15/09/2020

Emneord

Non-technical students
programming
Computational Thinking
multimedia
course structure

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10.1109/IIAI-AAI50415.2020.00041

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Valente, A , Marchetti, E & Wang, J 2020, Design of an educational multimedia library to teach Python to non-technical university students. i P Zaphiris & A Ioannou (red), 9th International Congress on Advanced Applied Informatics (IIAI-AAI)., 9430399, IEEE, s. 169-175, 9th International Congress on Advanced Applied Informatics (IIAI-AAI), Kitakyushu, Japan, 01/09/2020. https://doi.org/10.1109/IIAI-AAI50415.2020.00041

Design of an educational multimedia library to teach Python to non-technical university students. / Valente, Andrea ; Marchetti, Emanuela; Wang, Jingyun.
9th International Congress on Advanced Applied Informatics (IIAI-AAI). red. / Panayiotis Zaphiris; Andri Ioannou. IEEE, 2020. s. 169-175 9430399.

Publikation: Kapitel i bog/rapport/konference-proceeding › Konferencebidrag i proceedings › Forskning › peer review

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