Abstract
Two leading universities in Finland, Aalto University and the University of Helsinki, each offer a programming course as a free online course, known as a MOOC. These courses have been taken by thousands of Finnish-speaking students and have received outstanding student feedback.
We discuss the pedagogical choices of the two courses as well as the basis of these choices, which lies in theories of instructional design and computing education research. We identify features of these courses that enable us to provide students with a better learning experience. Drawing on our experiences, we highlight future challenges in improving our own MOOCs as well as others.
We discuss the pedagogical choices of the two courses as well as the basis of these choices, which lies in theories of instructional design and computing education research. We identify features of these courses that enable us to provide students with a better learning experience. Drawing on our experiences, we highlight future challenges in improving our own MOOCs as well as others.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | New Ways to Teach and Learn in China and Finland |
| Subtitle of host publication | Crossing Boundaries with Technology |
| Editors | Hannele Niemi, Jiyou Jia |
| Publisher | Peter Lang |
| Pages | 279-300 |
| Number of pages | 21 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 978-3-631-69873-0, 978-3-631-69874-7, 978-3-631-69875-4 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-3-631-67642-4 |
| Publication status | Published - 2017 |
| MoE publication type | A3 Book section, Chapters in research books |
Keywords
- MOOCs
- Massive Open Online Courses
- programming education
- novice programmers
- CS1
- distance learning