A computer programming hybrid MOOC for Greek secondary education

A Framework of Hybrid MOOC-based Pedagogies

The School of Engineering at Pontificia Universidad Católica (PUC) started developing its MOOC initiative in September 2014. Since then, the school has been producing MOOCs based on specialized topics for Coursera, besides working on MOOCs to complement on-campus courses for Open edX. In parallel with the course production, the school started implementing MOOCbased hybrid pedagogies. In order t...

Describing MOOC-based Hybrid initiatives: The H-MOOC Framework

Several studies have described different hybrid initiatives to integrate MOOCs into traditional higher education. Most of these studies have partially documented students’ perception on hybrid initiatives, measuring course satisfaction among other metrics. Few researchers have reported institutional efforts implied in implementing hybrid initiatives and their benefits from a curriculum perspect...

Employing subgoals in computer programming education

Elucidative Programming in Computer Science Education

In this paper we present some ideas and tools for involving real programs in educational contexts. The ideas are based on a paradigm called elucidative programming, which we will motivate and introduce. The tool is the Java Elucidator, with which it is possible to produce a web of Java programs and explanations. We will discuss the usage of the elucidative paradigm both from the teacher’s persp...

Games Programming in Computer Science Education

In this paper, we investigated the role of content and processes as they relate to games and programming in post-secondary computer science courses. Our examination found themes that can help computer science instructors teach both introductory and advanced programming topics. Our analysis was focused primarily on the theoretical and practical subject matter that is taught in game programming c...