Towards practical programming exercises and automated assessment in Massive Open Online Courses

Staubitz, Thomas; Klement, Hauke; Renz, Jan; Teusner, Ralf; Meinel, Christoph

doi:10.1109/tale.2015.7386010

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“…As in previous research (Robinson & Carroll, ; Stajduhar & Mausa, ; Staubitz et al ., ), those who pass the assignments have carried out more executions on average (though the dispersion was higher too). Thus, the more students use the tool the more possibilities they have to complete their assignment successfully.…”

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confidence: 96%

Fruitful student interactions and perceived learning improvement in DSLab: A dynamic assessment tool for distributed programming

Puig¹,

Daradoumis²,

Calvet³

et al. 2019

Brit J Educational Tech

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This work presents an automated assessment tool for online distributed programming, called DSLab. It is a web-based environment that provides a transparent deployment and execution of assignments in remote computers, a transparent initialization and the possibility to add new logs by the students. DSLab has been evaluated in a real distributed learning environment by analysing students' own perceptions on their learning improvement and exploring whether students' interactions with the tool yielded a fruitful learning experience. Current research provides no evidence that the effects of such a tool have been investigated in the field of online distributed programming. Two types of analysis were performed: a quantitative analysis of data coming from students answering a questionnaire and an analysis of the log files of students' interactions with the tool. Our results showed that students perceived substantial learning improvement from the use of the automated assessment tool. Moreover, students produced fruitful interaction with the tool as soon as they achieved high familiarization and constant activity with it, which ultimately helped them improve their academic performance. Finally, the limitations of the current study and directions for future research are presented.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 96%

Fruitful student interactions and perceived learning improvement in DSLab: A dynamic assessment tool for distributed programming

Puig¹,

Daradoumis²,

Calvet³

et al. 2019

Brit J Educational Tech

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“…Amongst others, these challenges include the vast amount of material that needs to be taught in short time in order to enable students to start their own software projects, the limited quality of most programming textbooks, as well as the dissatisfying learning outcomes of such courses. It is also important that students receive proper feedback on their practical programming tasks in a timely manner which is often not realized in software development courses [17].…”

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Mobile Distance Learning Driven Software Development Education

Schefer-Wenzl¹,

Miladinović²

2018

IJIET

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Abstract-Software development education requires students to be engaged in realistic software projects, which are increasingly developed in geographically distributed teams. Therefore, we started to include distance learning based projects into our software development courses. Combining distance learning and mobile technologies opens possibilities for new teaching methods, facilitating personalized, informal, situated, contextualized and ubiquitous learning. In this paper, we introduce a novel course module design, gradually increasing mobile distance learning activities. It leverages different teaching methods, including elements from Just-in-Time Teaching, project-based learning and peer assessment.

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“…Although command-line interface (CLI) applications may be sufficient for improving programming skills, graphical user interfaces (GUI) in applications would increase student motivation and experience (Staubitz et al 2015). Usually, students are interested in learning how to develop programmes having GUIs (English 2004).…”

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Some aspects of grading Java code submissions in MOOCs

Király

Nehéz

Hornyák

2017

Research in Learning Technology

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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 exercises and more complex programming assignments for learners. It is expedient for the students to receive prompt feedback on their coding submissions. Although MOOC automated programme evaluation subsystem is capable of assessing source programme files that are in learning management systems, in MOOC systems there is a grader that is responsible for evaluating students' assignments with the result that course staff would be required to assess thousands of programmes submitted by the participants of the course without the benefit of an automatic grader. This paper presents a new concept for grading programming submissions of students and improved techniques based on the Java unit testing framework that enables automatic grading of code chunks. Some examples are also given such as the creation of unique exercises by dynamically generating the parameters of the assignment in a MOOC programming course combined with the kind of coding style recognition to teach coding standards.

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Towards practical programming exercises and automated assessment in Massive Open Online Courses

Cited by 93 publications

References 37 publications

Fruitful student interactions and perceived learning improvement in DSLab: A dynamic assessment tool for distributed programming

Fruitful student interactions and perceived learning improvement in DSLab: A dynamic assessment tool for distributed programming

Mobile Distance Learning Driven Software Development Education

Some aspects of grading Java code submissions in MOOCs

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