Repositories of teaching material and communities of use

Fincher, Sally; Kölling, Michael; Utting, Ian; Brown, Neil C. C.; Stevens, Phil

doi:10.1145/1839594.1839613

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“…Despite the development of multiple educational resource repositories, current sharing practices rely largely on informal exchange between colleagues . A 2005 survey concluded that educators seldom use repositories, and are often dissatisfied when they do .…”

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Sharing teaching and learning resources: perceptions of a university's faculty members

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Our research confirms that educators believe interprofessional resource sharing to be beneficial and appropriate. However, concerns that resources are of insufficient quality or will be incorrectly attributed surfaced as barriers to sharing. Poor understanding and ambiguity surrounding intellectual property rights highlighted the need for repository communities to be sufficiently educated. Developing a commonly agreed metadata and labelling system, and linking with existing infrastructure, will enhance the impact of a learning object repository. Providing avenues for sharing, such as resource repositories, may assist in aligning education with the well-established process of peer review utilised by the research community, improving resource quality through exposure to others' perspectives and feedback. Furthermore, the increased accountability, restriction and familiarity of repositories may prove beneficial in encouraging sharing.

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Sharing teaching and learning resources: perceptions of a university's faculty members

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“…Two recent papers have addressed the questions of why computing teaching repositories have failed [24] and succeeded [8]. The first paper, by Mitchell and Lutters, focused on users.…”

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“…Fincher et al start by proposing an overall framework for teaching repositories [8]. All repositories, according to this framework, must address the following issues:…”

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The Canterbury QuestionBank

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Proceedings of the ITiCSE Working Group Reports Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education-Working G

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In this paper, we report on an ITiCSE-13 Working Group that developed a set of 654 multiple-choice questions on CS1 and CS2 topics, the Canterbury QuestionBank. We describe the questions, the metadata we investigated, and some preliminary investigations of possible research uses of the QuestionBank. The QuestionBank is publicly available as a repository for computing education instructors and researchers.

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“…The Gallery serves as a highly motivating element in the Greenfoot ecosystem, with frequent discussion threads attached to scenarios where other users provide feedback, report errors or suggest improvements [Fincher et al 2010]. As a result, students in organized teaching courses often spend additional time after an assignment has finished improving and extending their projects.…”

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The Greenfoot Programming Environment

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2010

ACM Trans. Comput. Educ.

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Greenfoot is an educational integrated development environment aimed at learning and teaching programming. It is aimed at a target audience of students from about 14 years old upwards, and is also suitable for college-and university-level education. Greenfoot combines graphical, interactive output with programming in Java, a standard, text-based object-oriented programming language. This article first describes Greenfoot and then goes on to discuss design goals and motivations, strengths and weaknesses of the system, and its relation to two environments with similar goals, Scratch and Alice.

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Repositories of teaching material and communities of use

Cited by 61 publications

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Sharing teaching and learning resources: perceptions of a university's faculty members

Sharing teaching and learning resources: perceptions of a university's faculty members

The Canterbury QuestionBank

The Greenfoot Programming Environment

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