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Promoting Active Participation in Large Programming Classes

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Computer Supported Education (CSEDU 2019)

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Abstract

Introducing flipped classrooms in large lectures which are predominant across Northern America and Europa is not an easy task, as with increasing class sizes it becomes more and more difficult for lecturers to support students while working on the exercises: To know whom to support, an overview of the class is required. This article introduces the learning and teaching format Phased Classroom Instruction which aims at making active learning similar to flipped classrooms usable in large class lectures with the help of technology. Technology supports students while working on exercises through immediate feedback and scaffolding, and lecturers by giving them an overview of the class what allows them to identify the struggling students.

The contributions of this article are twofold: First, the novel learning and teaching format Phased Classroom Instruction with its specific technological support and two evaluations of the proposed format in a small and a large class respectively showing that the format is being well-liked by students, but exposing problems of the format in the large classes as well.

This article is an extended version of [22], first presented at CSEDU2019 in Crete and extends upon the original article by adding a more detailed description of the technological support and a second evaluation.

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The authors are thankful to Maximilian Meyer for the implementation of the JavaScript editor as part of his master’s thesis [24].

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Mader, S., Bry, F. (2020). Promoting Active Participation in Large Programming Classes. In: Lane, H.C., Zvacek, S., Uhomoibhi, J. (eds) Computer Supported Education. CSEDU 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1220. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58459-7_16

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