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This study explores the application of AIGC in the development of digital resources for online programming courses, pointing out that AI technology brings new opportunities for educational resource development, but faces problems such as technical ...

Online course design in higher education continues to be a challenge. Complex and rich data require scalable research methods. Conflicting goals and aims of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) complicate the research field. To understand educationally ...

This paper reports on the design, implementation and evaluation of an online professional development course on climate change education with secondary school science teachers from Spain. The course was an adaptation of a training concept that was ...

Compared with offline courses, the interaction between teachers and students, and between students and students in online courses is relatively simple and mainly realized through bullet screen. The presence of bullet screen can help guide students ...

In this paper, we investigate the relationship between student experiences and transactional distance in a 12 week online undergraduate Python programming course. Transactional distance is defined as the psychological and communication space between ...

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are a growing trend in contemporary education due to their accessible and flexible access to satisfy learning objectives. However, there are worries regarding learning success because cultural factors that influence ...

Since computer science is still mainly male dominated, academia, industry and education jointly seek ways to motivate and inspire girls, for example by introducing them to programming at an early age. The recent COVID-19 pandemic has forced many such ...

In language learning, getting corrective feedback for writing tasks is an essential didactical concept to improve learners' language skills. Although various tools for automatic correction do exist, open writing texts still need to be corrected manually ...

Automatic grading systems have been in existence since the turn of the half-century. Several systems have been developed in the literature with either static analysis and dynamic analysis or a hybrid of both methodologies for computer science courses. ...

There is a burgeoning trend of smartphone ownership in Africa due to the low costs of Android smartphones and the global increase in social media usage. Building upon our previous work that introduced a smartphone-based coding course to secondary and ...

Online learning raises more concerns after it helped many students go through a tough academic year under the shadow of pandemic. But the effects of online courses are not so optimistic. To measure quality of online courses, we propose a comprehensive ...

Learners’ retention is an essential factor that affects the completion rate of online learning in universities. Learners with high retention have a preponderant probability of completing the course with satisfactory results. The development of online ...

Educational recommender systems channel most of the research efforts on the effectiveness of the recommended items. While teachers have a central role in online platforms, the impact of recommender systems for teachers in terms of the exposure such ...

Aiming at the problem that the overload of online education platform course resources leads to the difficulty of user selection, this paper mainly studies the improvement and application of collaborative filtering algorithm based on online course ...

This work presents a study that tracked data generated from distance education systems, and made use of these data, often neglected, to produce information and knowledge about the system itself as well as the involved people. The strategy presented go ...

Online and flexible programming courses for in-service teachers with varied level of programming knowledge, interests, and different application need might, on the one hand, be challenging. On the other hand, this flexibility might provide convenience ...

Online courses are popular among learners of programming, but many learners have trouble completing the courses. A common approach to increase learner engagement is to provide co-learner presence via chat and forums. In this work, we present Cocode, an ...

It is critical for higher education institutions to work on improvement of their teaching and learning strategy by examining feedback of students. Analyzing these feedbacks typically requires manual interventions which are not only labor intensive but ...

The instructors in conventional classes play a crucial role in motivating students to participate in class activities. However, in asynchronous online courses, such a relationship where the instructor act as the observer and the motivator is missing. In ...

Africa lags behind the rest of the world in terms of digital literacy skills with less than one percent of African children leaving school with basic coding skills. One cause of this gap is poor access to equipment such as computers for teaching and ...