Making teaching of programming learning-oriented and learner-directed

  • Authors:

  • Ville Tirronen;Ville Isomöttönen

  • Affiliations:

  • University of Jyväskylä, Finland;University of Jyväskylä, Finland

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 11th Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Programming education has been traditionally realized in the form of lecturing, but other approaches are under discussion. These emphasize active participation on the part of students, and, as a research activity, consider pedagogic questions holistically. We join this discussion by stating a course design in which we promote a learning-oriented study culture where learning should not be characterized principally as the task of meeting some predefined completion requirements. Moreover, we want our course to be learner-directed meaning that students should take control over their own learning process. Grounded on these goals, this discussion paper gives us a starting point for a subsequent action research undertaking.