Object-Oriented Software Development Education: a Constructivist Framework
The paper argues for the importance of the constructivist learning theory to software development education. Constructivism frames learning less as the product of passive transmission than a process of active construction whereby learners construct their own knowledge based upon prior knowledge and...
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Vilnius University
2005-10-01
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| description | The paper argues for the importance of the constructivist learning theory to software development education. Constructivism frames learning less as the product of passive transmission than a process of active construction whereby learners construct their own knowledge based upon prior knowledge and experience. Now that a number of software development courses offer project-based teaching, it seems that the importance of a constructivist perspective has been implicitly well-taken in the current practice. What these approaches explicitly lack is a concrete methodology of how to carry out the constructivist perspective and its consequences for learning. This paper reports on a constructivist approach to object-oriented software development at the undergraduate level. It explores methodological aspects of the approach and discusses the results from its evaluation. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-5f1c5f9d1668403e920e2376c28e73ad2022-12-22T02:04:05ZengVilnius UniversityInformatics in Education1648-58312335-89712005-10-014216719210.15388/infedu.2005.10Object-Oriented Software Development Education: a Constructivist FrameworkSaid HADJERROUIT0Agder University College, Faculty of Mathematics Serviceboks 422, N-4604 Kristiansand, NorwayThe paper argues for the importance of the constructivist learning theory to software development education. Constructivism frames learning less as the product of passive transmission than a process of active construction whereby learners construct their own knowledge based upon prior knowledge and experience. Now that a number of software development courses offer project-based teaching, it seems that the importance of a constructivist perspective has been implicitly well-taken in the current practice. What these approaches explicitly lack is a concrete methodology of how to carry out the constructivist perspective and its consequences for learning. This paper reports on a constructivist approach to object-oriented software development at the undergraduate level. It explores methodological aspects of the approach and discusses the results from its evaluation.https://infedu.vu.lt/doi/10.15388/infedu.2005.10constructivismlearning cycleobject-orientedsoftware developmentonline resourcesunified modeling language |
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| title | Object-Oriented Software Development Education: a Constructivist Framework |
| title_full | Object-Oriented Software Development Education: a Constructivist Framework |
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| title_short | Object-Oriented Software Development Education: a Constructivist Framework |
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