On the Value of Using an Interactive Electronic Textbook in an Introductory Programming Course

Kerttu Pollari-Malmi; Julio Guerra; Peter Brusilovsky; Lauri Malmi; Teemu Sirkiä

doi:10.1145/3141880.3141890

On the Value of Using an Interactive Electronic Textbook in an Introductory Programming Course

Kerttu Pollari-Malmi, Julio Guerra, Peter Brusilovsky, Lauri Malmi, Teemu Sirkiä

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Abstract

E-books including interactive elements are rapidly becoming more popular and are likely to largely replace traditional textbooks at university level education. In this paper, we report our initial observations on the changes we noticed in students' motivational factors and learning results when a static PDF textbook was replaced by an interactive e-textbook in a large CS1 service course. We found increase in both motivational factors, as well as learning gain. In addition, students' feedback on the learning resources improved. While the changes were not large, they encourage to continue integrating more interactive learning content into course learning environment.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 17th Koli Calling Conference on Computing Education Research
Publisher	ACM
Pages	168-172
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4503-5301-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3141880.3141890
Publication status	Published - 2017
MoE publication type	A4 Conference publication
Event	Koli Calling - International Conference on Computing Education Research - Koli, Lieksa, Finland Duration: 16 Nov 2017 → 19 Nov 2017 Conference number: 17 http://www.kolicalling.fi/ http://www.kolicalling.fi

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Name	ICPS: ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
Publisher	ACM
Volume	1436

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Conference	Koli Calling - International Conference on Computing Education Research
Country/Territory	Finland
City	Lieksa
Period	16/11/2017 → 19/11/2017
Internet address	http://www.kolicalling.fi/ http://www.kolicalling.fi

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CS1
programming education
E-textbooks
motivation

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Pollari-Malmi, K., Guerra, J., Brusilovsky, P., Malmi, L., & Sirkiä, T. (2017). On the Value of Using an Interactive Electronic Textbook in an Introductory Programming Course. In Proceedings of the 17th Koli Calling Conference on Computing Education Research (pp. 168-172). (ICPS: ACM International Conference Proceeding Series; Vol. 1436). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3141880.3141890

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Pollari-Malmi, K, Guerra, J, Brusilovsky, P, Malmi, L & Sirkiä, T 2017, On the Value of Using an Interactive Electronic Textbook in an Introductory Programming Course. in Proceedings of the 17th Koli Calling Conference on Computing Education Research. ICPS: ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, vol. 1436, ACM, pp. 168-172, Koli Calling - International Conference on Computing Education Research, Lieksa, Finland, 16/11/2017. https://doi.org/10.1145/3141880.3141890

On the Value of Using an Interactive Electronic Textbook in an Introductory Programming Course. / Pollari-Malmi, Kerttu; Guerra, Julio; Brusilovsky, Peter et al.
Proceedings of the 17th Koli Calling Conference on Computing Education Research. ACM, 2017. p. 168-172 (ICPS: ACM International Conference Proceeding Series; Vol. 1436).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference article in proceedings › Scientific › peer-review

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