Capturing collaborative designs to assist the pedagogical process

  • Authors:

  • Mark Ratcliffe;Lynda Thomas;Wayne Ellis;Benjy Thomasson

  • Affiliations:

  • University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK;University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK;University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK;University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 8th annual conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

This paper describes a project being undertaken at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth that captures students' designs in an attempt to improve the pedagogy. To enhance their understanding of object oriented programming, students are given an environment that enables distance working and encourages group collaboration whilst capturing all aspects of development of their designs. To enhance the teaching of programming and software design, instructors are given access to complete design histories enabling them to better understand how the students view their design processes, the problems that arise and the steps that they take to resolve them.