Creativity and intrinsic motivation in computer science education: Experimenting with robots

ITiCSE'10 - Proceedings of the 2010 ACM SIGCSE Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 199-203

  Apiola, Mikko ^a   Lattu, Matti ^a   Pasanen, Tomi A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b TUMAINI UNIVERSITY   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

Constructionism; Creativity; Motivation; Open learning environment; Robotics

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATION; CONSTRUCTIONISM; CREATIVITY-ENHANCING; CS2 COURSE; HELSINKI; INTRINSIC MOTIVATION; LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS; LEARNING OBJECTIVES; OPEN LEARNING; PILOT COURSE; WORKING METHODS;

COMPUTER CRIME; COMPUTER SCIENCE; EDUCATION COMPUTING; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; INNOVATION; MOTIVATION; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; TEACHING;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 77955127554     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1822090.1822147     Document Type: Conference Paper

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