Paper Info
Title
Exploration of Object-Oriented Models in Informatics Education
Abstract
The authors introduce the exploration of object-oriented basic concepts as a new approach to object-oriented modelling (OOM). While other subjects have a long tradition in learning by discovery with suitable learning aids (e.g. experi- menting installations of the scientific subjects), Informatics at first has to define and to develop such learning aids. Therefore software development environments have been analysed and understanding promoting as well as understanding hinder- ing functions have been identified. In detail the understanding promoting functions "support of the syntactic correctness of a model", "promotion of the logical cor- rectness of a model" and "visualization of abstract concepts with change of the ob- servation perspective" and the understanding hindering function "error avoidance by ban of action" as well as the fact, that the fundamental ideas of OOM are pre- supposed, were found. By these findings, design criteria of the Didactics of Infor- matics for so-called exploration modules, learning aids for the exploration of ob- ject-oriented basic concepts, are derived. These are the criteria "basic concepts on different abstraction levels" and "synchronization, transformation and evaluation of diagrams". Finally the role of exploration modules as a lesson medium is dis- cussed and the application of the exploration by learners is worked out. Especially the change between different views of an object-oriented model to ensure com- pleteness and consistency is stressed.
Year
DOI
Venue
2002
10.1007/978-0-387-35663-1_11
SECIII
Keywords
Field
DocType
informatics education,basic concepts,learner-centred learning,didactics of informatics,object-oriented models,e-learning,learning environments,object oriented,software development environment
Informatics,Abstraction,Object-oriented programming,Visualization,Development environment,Computer science,Correctness,Knowledge management,Completeness (statistics),Syntax,Management science
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
1-4020-7363-1
4
0.66
References 
Authors
6
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Torsten Brinda119646.01
Sigrid E. Schubert232083.51