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Using collaborative learning scenarios to teach programming to non‐CS majors
Author(s) -
Echeverría Leovy,
Cobos Ruth,
Machuca Liliana,
Claros Ivan
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
computer applications in engineering education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.478
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 1099-0542
pISSN - 1061-3773
DOI - 10.1002/cae.21832
Subject(s) - computer science , collaborative learning , curriculum , context (archaeology) , social network analysis , computer programming , mathematics education , multimedia , knowledge management , social media , world wide web , pedagogy , psychology , programming language , paleontology , biology
This article presents a new approach based on “collaborative scenarios” to enhance teaching–learning programming in non‐Computer Science oriented curricula. In this context, a literature review of tools related to teaching programming since a collaborative approach is presented. The collaborative scenarios was supported by a platform called TASystem, and applied in a case study carried out with students from Topographic Engineering Department at the Universidad del Valle (Colombia). The students’ social interaction was analyzed with Social Network Analysis and Content Analysis techniques and so was the students’ performance. The results showed an improvement in the students’ performance and an increment in the social relationship among the students.