Paper Info
Title
Visualizing the Complex Process for Deep Learning with an Authentic Programming Project.
Abstract
Project-based learning (PjBL) has been increasingly used to connect abstract knowledge and authentic tasks in educational practice, including computer programming education. Despite its promising effects on improving learning in multiple aspects, PjBL remains a struggle due to its complexity. Completing an authentic programming project involves a complex process of applying programming strategies to design and develop artifacts. Programming strategies are often implicit and hard to capture, but critical for programming performance. This study proposes a visualization-based learning environment that externalizes the complex process of applying programming strategies to the design and development of solutions to an authentic programming project. It aims to make the complex process accessible, trackable, and attainable with the support of technology. Twenty-nine senior college students participated in this study, using the proposed learning environment to complete a PjBL module of ASP.NET. The proposed approach improved students' programming performance and subject knowledge and activated their intrinsic motivation to learn programming.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2017
EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY
Visualization,Complex process,Computer programming,Authentic learning,Computer-based learning environment,Project-based learning
Field
DocType
Volume
Semi-structured interview,Knowledge level,Computer science,Visualization,Human–computer interaction,Artificial intelligence,Deep learning,Multimedia,Statistical analysis
Journal
20
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
SP4
1176-3647
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jun Peng1423.72
Minhong Wang253147.90
Demetrios G. Sampson31310247.68