Developing a Blended Learning Strategy for Teaching Object-Oriented Programming Using the’Model First’Approach
Authors: Psaromiligkos, Ioannis (Yannis) 
Georgantaki, Roula 
Retalis, Symeon 
Dendrinos, Vassilis 
Adamopoulos, Dimitris 
Issue Date: 1-Jan-2007
Conference: 2nd Informatics Education Europe Conference (II-IEEII 2007) "Developments in South East Europe", 29-30 November 2007, Thessaloniki, Greece 
Book: Proceedings of Informatics Education Europe II (IEEII 2007): Developments in South East Europe 
Keywords: Blended learning, Learning strategy, Object Oriented Programming, Model first
Abstract: 
This paper proposes a sequence of learning activities (i.e. a learning script) supported by networked technologies for the application of the “model-first” approach in teaching object oriented programming (OOP). The “model-first” approach has been proposed and applied by various researchers and it seems promising for augmenting the learning effectiveness of OO programming instructional practices. This approach focuses on the conceptualisation of OO design models as well as the OO software development process based on these models, prior to exposing students to the programming language’s syntactic and semantic details. However, there is a lack of systematic evaluation studies of the application of this specific approach via a specific sequence of learning activities. The paper proposes such a sequence which involves three main phases: (i) observation of the development process of an exemplar OO software application (ii) problem solving tasks with guided instructions, and (iii) autonomous problem solving task. The proposed sequence of learning activities was tested during a two and a half months seminar for postgraduate students showing promising results.
ISBN: 978-960-89629-3-4
URI: https://uniwacris.uniwa.gr/handle/3000/1671
Type: Conference Paper
Department: Department of Business Administration 
School: School of Administrative, Economics and Social Sciences 
Affiliation: University of West Attica (UNIWA) 
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