Promoting active learning & leveraging dashboards for curriculum assessment in an OpenEdX introductory CS course for middle school

L@S 2014 - Proceedings of the 1st ACM Conference on Learning at Scale

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 205-206

  Grover, Shuchi ^a   Pea, Roy ^a   Cooper, Stephen ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Analytics; Assessment; Blended learning; Instructional design; Instructor dashboards; K 12 CS education; Learning theory; MOOC; OpenEdX

Indexed keywords

TEACHING;

ANALYTICS; ASSESSMENT; BLENDED LEARNING; CS EDUCATION; INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGNS; INSTRUCTOR DASHBOARDS; LEARNING THEORY; MOOC; OPENEDX;

CURRICULA;

EID: 84899699274     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2556325.2567883     Document Type: Conference Paper

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