Evaluating an Interactive Tool for Teaching Design Patterns

Azimullah, Zain; An, Young Sun; Denny, Paul

doi:10.1145/3373165.3373184

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“…The experiments involved 12 courses of different bachelor degrees, in blended learning, with their 12 leading instructors. The courses included from 90 to 120 students each (mostly in age range [18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25]. All the instructors involved in the experimental phase had already used the Moodle platform for at least one year, to avoid a bias introduced by the teachers' learning curve.…”

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“…More than ever, the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the necessity to grant accessibility from smartphones, in particular in all the cases where remote learning of several students in the same house (e.g., siblings, students sharing the house, teachers who are also parents of students) would require an expensive and bulky amount of personal computers. In the second section, the current state of the art of visual interfaces for learner monitoring in LMS and their main drawbacks are discussed in order to motivate our approach and the use of the innovative approach of visual interface morphing [17,18]. In section three, we detail the definition of the three proposed types of visual interface morphing methodologies.…”

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Artificial Intelligence Visual Metaphors in E-Learning Interfaces for Learning Analytics

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This work proposes an innovative visual tool for real-time continuous learners analytics. The purpose of the work is to improve the design, functionality, and usability of learning management systems to monitor user activity to allow educators to make informed decisions on e-learning design, usually limited to dashboards graphs, tables, and low-usability user logs. The standard visualisation is currently scarce, and often inadequate to inform educators about the design quality and students engagement on their learning objects. The same low usability can be found in learning analytics tools, which mostly focus on post-course analysis, demanding specific skills to be effectively used, e.g., for statistical analysis and database queries. We propose a tool for student analytics embedded in a Learning Management System, based on the innovative visual metaphor of interface morphing. Artificial intelligence provides in remote learning immediate feedback, crucial in a face-to-face setting, highlighting the students’ engagement in each single learning object. A visual metaphor is the representation of a person, group, learning object, or concept through a visual image that suggests a particular association or point of similarity. The basic idea is that elements of the application interface, e.g., learning objects’ icons and student avatars, can be modified in colour and dimension to reflect key performance indicators of learner’s activities. The goal is to provide high-affordance information on the student engagement and usage of learning objects, where aggregation functions on subsets of users allow a dynamic evaluation of cohorts with different granularity. The proposed visual metaphors (i.e., thermometer bar, dimensional morphing, and tag cloud morphing) have been implemented and experimented within academic-level courses. Experimental results have been evaluated with a comparative analysis of user logs and a subjective usability survey, which show that the tool obtains quantitative, measurable effectiveness and the qualitative appreciation of educators. Among metaphors, the highest success is obtained by Dimensional morphing and Tag cloud transformation.

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Artificial Intelligence Visual Metaphors in E-Learning Interfaces for Learning Analytics

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“…In Table 10, the results of the evaluations related to the conclusions about the tools and their utilization can be observed. Students in the study by Yang et al (2018) were satisfied with the tool and in studies (Azimullah et al, 2020;Yang et al, 2018) were comfortable with using the tools. Students who were using the tool by Herout & Brada (2015) found out its usefulness while they were using it.…”

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“…It leverages SonarQube to gather metrics about the quality of the code and present them in a friendly report view (Yang et al, 2015) JavlinaCode JavlinaCode is a web-based interactive educational programming environment which is designed to help teach OOP in java (Yang et al, 2018) JaguarCode The introduced tool is a web-based programming environment which helps students understand the static structure and dynamic behavior of java programs. It provides UML diagrams and dynamic execution trace features (Azimullah et al, 2020) Bounce project Bounce project is a tool that uses a combination of real-world metaphors and programming coding exercises to teach design patterns step by step. Students receive real time feedback about their exercise completion status (Dietrich & Kemp, 2008) DPLab DPLab is an eclipse IDE plugin that assists students to learn design patterns.…”

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“…Several difficulties have been recorded in the literature regarding the use of classes, such as (Xinogalos, 2015): difficulty in comprehending that a class models an entity in the program domain (Eckerdal & Thuné, 2005); a class is viewed as a collection of objects instead of an abstraction (Ragonis & Ben-Ari, 2005); difficulty in writing programs with multiple classes (Carter & Fowler, 1998) or composed classes (Ragonis & Ben-Ari, 2005). • Design patterns (Azimullah et al, 2020; Denegri et al, 2008). Another important topic that is tightly related to OOP is the learning difficulties that students face with design patterns.…”

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Educational Programming Environments for Enhancing Conceptual Design in the Object-Oriented Paradigm: A Systematic Mapping Study

Tsichouridis,

Xinogalos,

Ampatzoglou

2023

Journal of Educational Computing Research

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Teaching and learning programming, and especially Object-Oriented Programming (OOP), is a complicated and challenging task. Students have to comprehend various OOP concepts and utilize them for designing object-oriented programs. Various types of educational programming environments, such as microworlds and educational games, have been devised for supporting novices mainly in comprehending OOP concepts. However, such environments do not usually support students in the conceptual design of object-oriented programs of a considerable length and complexity. In this paper, we focus on a systematic mapping study (SMS) of educational programming environments for enhancing the conceptual design in OOP, which relies on modularity, abstraction and encapsulation. The research questions investigate the intended learning outcomes, the empirical evidence on the effectiveness, and the teaching/learning technologies used by educational programming environments for enhancing the conceptual design in OOP. The findings can support instructors in selecting appropriate tools for their courses and researchers in the field of educational programming environments for OOP.

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Mixed teaching of design patterns based on MOOC

Chen

Meng

Jiang

2021

J. Phys.: Conf. Ser.

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In order to improve teaching effect of the “Java Design Patterns” course, the teaching process uses cases as the main line through the pattern concept, pattern structure diagram, pattern realization, application scenarios and the advantages and disadvantages of the pattern. This teaching method combines the orientation of application-oriented undergraduate, the characteristics of students’ knowledge structure and course’s abstract nature. In addition, this method combines traditional classrooms and MOOC platforms, and has achieved good results in actual teaching.

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Evaluating an Interactive Tool for Teaching Design Patterns

Cited by 8 publications

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Artificial Intelligence Visual Metaphors in E-Learning Interfaces for Learning Analytics

Artificial Intelligence Visual Metaphors in E-Learning Interfaces for Learning Analytics

Educational Programming Environments for Enhancing Conceptual Design in the Object-Oriented Paradigm: A Systematic Mapping Study

Mixed teaching of design patterns based on MOOC

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