Computer‐based management environment for an assembly language programming laboratory

Age of Computers is a web-based multi-player game for teaching computer fundamentals to undergraduate engineering students. The storyline of the game is linked to the historical periods (epochs) of computers, and the content is organized in rooms or places on a map where the player moves around to answer questions and solve puzzles. This paper reports on the usage of the game in a course with 250 undergraduate students. Both questionnaire surveys and observations of student behavior indicate that the game was positively received even if the students were obliged to use it in the context of the course. ß

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 98%

A compulsory yet motivating question/answer game to teach computer fundamentals

Natvig

Sindre

Djupdal

2008

“…They present a number of technologies that can be used to achieve personalization in adaptive distributed learning environments, such as: (1) web services; (2) Semantic Web; and (3) AI techniques. Rodriguez et al describe the environment used in the Computer Architecture Department of the Technical University of Madrid (UPM) for managing small laboratory work projects and a specific application for an Assembly Language Programming Laboratory. Breuer et al present different software prototypes to support collaborative learning in the classroom through interactive technologies.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Athena: A hybrid management system for multi‐device educational content

Vásquez-Ramírez

Alor-Hernández

Rodríguez-González

2012

Over the past few years, a number of software applications have been proposed to tackle the administration, documentation, tracking, and reporting of training programs and contents such as CMS (Content Management System) and LMS (Learning Management System). However, CMS focuses on the administration and development of websites, while LMS is mainly focused on the management of training through the use of learning objects. CMS and LMS have features that can be used in conjunction in order to create educational environments which enhance the teaching–learning process in classrooms. This article presents a hybrid management system called Athena for multi‐device educational content providing a set of Web‐based interfaces for managing, presenting, and generating PHP‐based applications with educational content, reducing both the time and effort invested during the development process of this type of software. Athena borrows the main features of both CMS and LMS in order to manage and reuse educational content. Athena allows the user to develop platform‐independent multi‐device educational software using existing educational content. Athena aims to provide new forms of accessibility to educational content, envisioning a better future for online education. To demonstrate Athena's capabilities, we have presented a case study for generating a multi‐device physics course to emphasize our contribution.© 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Comput Appl Eng Educ 22:750–763, 2014; View this article online at http://wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/cae; DOI

“…Others have developed software solutions to assist teachers in their tutoring and assessing tasks. There are already many systems described in the literature that adopt this approach to offer an online environment for programming learning, that is, for Java [11,12], Assembly , VHDL , Web , Matlab or C Languages , among others. These systems have their particular automatic evaluators, some of them are based on executing a set of previously designed and configured tests, comparing the output with the one generated by the instructor, which is called black box evaluation , and others systems even are focused on compiler error messages understanding or on programming style analysis .…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A friendly online C compiler to improve programming skills based on student self‐assessment

Cedazo

Cena

Al‐Hadithi

2015

This paper presents an online C compiler designed so that students can program their practical assignments in Programming courses. What is really innovative is the self-assessment of the exercises based on black-box tests and train students' skill to test software. Moreover, this tool lets instructors, not only proposing and classifying practical exercises, but also evaluating automatically the efforts dedicated and the results obtained by the students. The system has been applied to the 1 st-year students at the Industrial Engineering specialization at the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid. Results show that the students obtained better academic performance, reducing the failure rate in the practical exam considerably with respect to previous years, in addition that an anonymous survey proved that students are satisfied with the system because they get instant feedback about their programs.