Massive Open Online Courses on Web Development Education: A Case Study

Research to Practice Full Paper) Even though web programming has become a dominant programming model, it still seems underrepresented as a curriculum topic within many computing programs. Such issue in web development education is not recent and was evidenced in several studies. In a massive, open,...

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Published inProceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference pp. 1 - 9
Main Authors Fassbinder, Aracele Garcia de Oliveira, Barbosa, Ellen Francine, Fassbinder, Marcelo
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.10.2018
Subjects
Education
Flipped Learning
MOOCs
Patterns
Planning
Programming profession
Software
Software engineering
Videos
Web Development Education
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ISSN2377-634X
DOI10.1109/FIE.2018.8659120

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Summary:Research to Practice Full Paper) Even though web programming has become a dominant programming model, it still seems underrepresented as a curriculum topic within many computing programs. Such issue in web development education is not recent and was evidenced in several studies. In a massive, open, and online context, in turn, another issue is the difficulty faced by instructors when designing competency-based activities to support the development of skills demanded by the industry, such as the use of agile practices to encourage simple, more lightweight, and faster software development. Such practices include pair-programming; sharing, discussing, and giving feedback; iterative and incremental development, among others. Believing that web development education needs further investigation, we developed a MOOC about web development that combines Bootstrap and CodeIgniter together with Agile Practices, in order to support lifelong learning in such context. Project-Based Learning was the main active learning strategy used to guide activities in the platform. The course design was based on the Learning Design Framework for MOOCs (LDF4MOOCs), an approach to design for learning that brings together important features and principles in order to provide a deeper understanding of MOOCs in the Software Engineering area and related subjects. In this paper, besides to describe a case study about a web development-based MOOC, we also discuss our findings by evidencing that there are still several technological and pedagogical challenges that need to be addressed so as to enhance the MOOCs learning experience for web development education.
ISSN:2377-634X
DOI:10.1109/FIE.2018.8659120