The object shop—using CD-ROM multimedia to introduce object concepts
SIGCSE '97 Proceedings of the twenty-eighth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
Java class visualization for teaching object-oriented concepts
SIGCSE '98 Proceedings of the twenty-ninth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
Proceedings of the IFIP TC3 WG3.1/3.5 joint working conference on Information technology : supporting change through teacher education: supporting change through teacher education
The Unified Modeling Language user guide
The Unified Modeling Language user guide
Making the connection: programming with animated small world
Proceedings of the 5th annual SIGCSE/SIGCUE ITiCSEconference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
Experiences when migrating from structured analysis to object-oriented modelling
ACSE '00 Proceedings of the Australasian conference on Computing education
DrJava: a lightweight pedagogic environment for Java
SIGCSE '02 Proceedings of the 33rd SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
Didactic System for Object-oriented Modelling
WCCE '01 Proceedings of the IFIP TC3 Seventh IFIP World Conference on Networking the Learner: Computers in Education
Exploration of Object-Oriented Models in Informatics Education
Proceedings of the IFIP TC3/WG3.1&3.2 Open Conference on Informatics and The Digital Society: Social, Ethical and Cognitive Issues on Informatics and ICT
Informatics Curricula and Teaching Methods
Informatics Curricula and Teaching Methods
An extensible framework for providing dynamic data structure visualizations in a lightweight IDE
Proceedings of the 35th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
Education and Information Technologies
Exploration module for understanding the functionality of the internet in secondary education
Koli Calling '07 Proceedings of the Seventh Baltic Sea Conference on Computing Education Research - Volume 88
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Discovery learning is very desirable not only in secondary education, because it prepares learners for life-long learning. Within secondary Informatics education in Germany, pupils often acquire many concepts by learning to program. To be able to model, to design and to evaluate own solutions, learners must acquire many details of a programming language and apply complex software development environments. So a lot of time gets lost for important topics, like the working principles of Informatics systems.The research presented here focuses on learning by exploration instead. The basic idea is that before developing own (typically small) solutions, learners explore medium size solutions by means of special learner-adequate Informatics systems, named exploration modules (EMs) here. In this paper, the author presents important aspects of the development methodology of such software, its application to the educational field of object-oriented modelling and shows how EM prototypes have successfully been included in different learning scenarios of secondary Informatics education, Informatics teacher education, and in-service Informatics teacher training within the academic years 2001 to 2004.