Integrated Model for Comprehensive Digital Education Platforms

8th International Conference on Higher Education Advances (HEAd'22)

Ingram²,

Gillet

2022

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As more educational activities are conducted online, the need for interactive applications (apps) that can effectively support educators in their practice is increasing. These apps are often created by web developers or by researchers, educators, and even students with programming experience. While a large body of work has focused on incorporating these apps into educational contexts, fewer studies have focused on their development. In this paper, we first present the design and implementation of an app development framework aimed at supporting developers in creating apps for education. We then report the results of a study comprising interviews with 12 developers who used the framework. Our findings highlight that while the creation of web apps for education can be facilitated by a purely software-based app development framework, effectively exploiting such a framework requires domain knowledge that could be acquired through in-depth documentation, tutorials, and collaboration between developers and educators.

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Supporting Developers in Creating Web Apps for Education via an App Development Framework

8th International Conference on Higher Education Advances (HEAd'22)

Ingram²,

Gillet

2022

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“…Technological Context Our code review notebook was implemented on the Graasp digital education platform [9]. Graasp allows instructors to create online learning experiences featuring a varied set of web-compatible resources.…”

Section: Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Integrating Code Reviews into Online Lessons to Support Software Engineering Education

Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems

Spaenlehauer

Rodríguez‐Triana

et al. 2023

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The use of peer code review exercises is well established in software engineering education. Nevertheless, challenges involving students' ability to perform code reviews have been identified as barriers to successfully integrating code reviews in educational settings. We have previously proposed code review notebooks as a way to address this issue. Code review notebooks resemble computational notebooks but focus on reviewing rather than executing code and can serve to introduce students to the code review process. In this study, we evaluated the effects of using a code review notebook via a case study whereby 25 university students were taught how to identify code style issues in JavaScript. Our mixed-method analysis suggests that the code review notebook format encourages students to reflect on their learning process and can result in short-term learning gains. These findings could serve instructors looking to incorporate code review exercises into their practice.

“…To prototype our proposed code review notebook format, we integrated our CRA with Graasp, an open digital education platform that allows instructors to create online lessons that support interactive applications [9]. Using Graasp, instructors can scaffold the CRA within an online lesson comprising multiple phases that a student can explore.…”

Section: Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

Toward Code Review Notebooks

2022 International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT)

Spaenlehauer

Rodríguez‐Triana

et al. 2022

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Peer code review has proven to be a valuable tool in software engineering. However, integrating code reviews into educational contexts is particularly challenging due to the complexity of both the process and popular code review tools. We propose to address this challenge by designing a code review application (CRA) aimed at teaching the code review process directly within existing online learning platforms. Using the CRA, instructors can scaffold online lessons that introduce the code review process to students through code snippets, following a format resembling computational notebooks. We refer to this online lesson format as the code review notebook format. Through a case study comprising an online lesson on code quality standards completed by 23 university students, we evaluated the usability of the CRA and the code review notebook format, obtaining positive results for both. These results are a first step toward integrating code review notebooks into software engineering education.