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 languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 17th Koli Calling Conference on Computing Education Research
PublisherACM
Pages168-172
ISBN (Print)978-1-4503-5301-4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2017
MoE publication typeA4 Conference publication
EventKoli Calling - International Conference on Computing Education Research - Koli, Lieksa, Finland
Duration: 16 Nov 201719 Nov 2017
Conference number: 17
http://www.kolicalling.fi/
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Publication series

NameICPS: ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
PublisherACM
Volume1436

Conference

ConferenceKoli Calling - International Conference on Computing Education Research
Country/TerritoryFinland
CityLieksa
Period16/11/201719/11/2017
Internet address

Keywords

  • CS1
  • programming education
  • E-textbooks
  • motivation

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