The Incremental Teaching Project Design for Project-Based Learning and Its Application in Java Programming Course

Project-Based Learning (PBL) is a widely adopted pedagogy that ignites students' interest of a subject through the investigation of an authentic problem and cultivates their abilities of innovation and self-learning. Traditional PBL often involves a project of complexity and significant scale,...

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Published inScience journal of education (Print) Vol. 4; no. 6; pp. 191 - 197
Main Author Huang, Hong
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published 2016
Subjects
Active Learning
Computer Science Education
Curriculum Implementation
Independent Study
Instructional Design
Problem Solving
Programming
Programming Languages
Sequential Approach
Student Projects
Teaching Methods
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Summary:Project-Based Learning (PBL) is a widely adopted pedagogy that ignites students' interest of a subject through the investigation of an authentic problem and cultivates their abilities of innovation and self-learning. Traditional PBL often involves a project of complexity and significant scale, which, under the time constraint of a course, is often difficult for students to handle and risks insufficient comprehension of the knowledge and negative impact on learning confidence. This paper proposes an incremental teaching project concept and its design strategy on top of the traditional project-based learning. An incremental teaching project is carefully designed for a Java Programming curriculum, based on which we discuss the dos and don'ts of applying incremental PBL to teaching.
ISSN:2329-0900
DOI:10.11648/j.sjedu.20160406.15