NDLI: Scaling youth development training in IT using an xMOOC platform

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Author	Lowis, M. Staubitz, T. Teusner, R. Renz, J. Meinel, C. Tannert, S.
Copyright Year	2015
Description	Author affiliation: Hasso Plattner Inst., Potsdam, Germany (Staubitz, T.; Teusner, R.; Renz, J.; Meinel, C.; Tannert, S.) \|\| Beuth Hochschule, Berlin, Germany (Lowis, M.)
Abstract	The paper at hand evaluates the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) Spielend Programmieren Lernen (Playfully learning to program), an effort to scale the youth development program at the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) for a larger audience. The HPI has a strong tradition in attracting children and adolescents to take their first steps towards a career in IT at an early age. The Schülerakademie, the Schülerkolleg, the Schülerklub, and the support for the CoderDojo in Potsdam are some of the regular activities in this context to take youngsters by the hand and supply them with material and guidance in their mother tongue. With the emergence of MOOCs and the success of HPI's own MOOC Platform - openHPI - it was a natural step to develop a course to address an audience that is only marginally represented in openHPI's regular courses: school children and adolescents. A further novelty for openHPI in this course was the focus on teaching programming with a high percentage of obligatory hands-on tasks. Particularly for this course, a standalone tool allowing participants to write and evaluate code directly in the browser - without the need to install additional software - has been developed. We will compare this tool to a small selection of similar approaches on other platforms. As it will be shown, the course attracted a far more diverse audience than expected, and therefore, also needs to be seen in the context of spreading digital literacy amongst wider parts of society. In this context we also will discuss the significant differences in the usage of the forum between the course Spielend Programmieren Lernen and the course In-Memory Databases, a more traditional openHPI course.
Starting Page	1
Ending Page	9
File Size	1709086
Page Count	9
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781479984541
DOI	10.1109/FIE.2015.7344145
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2015-10-21
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Context Videos Browsers Training Programming profession MOOC K-12 openHPI Automated Assessment E-Learning Online Learning Programming Python MOOC K-12
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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