Visual Analysis of a Moodle-based Object Oriented Programming Course

  1. Francisco J. García Peñalvo 1
  2. Miguel A. Conde 2
  3. Sergio Bravo 2
  4. Diego A. Gómez 2
  5. Roberto Therón 2
  1. 1 Computer Science Department / Science Education Research Institute / University of Salamanca
  2. 2 Computer Science Department / University of Salamanca
Revista:
IJCA Proceedings on Design and Evaluation of Digital Content for Education (DEDCE)

ISSN: 0975-8887

Año de publicación: 2011

Volumen: 1

Páginas: 8-14

Tipo: Artículo

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Resumen

The literature in educational research has established that monitoring student learning is a crucial component of high quality education. When instructors and students are not in a face-to-face traditional environment, new forms of student monitoring must be explored. The effective use of CMS requires that instructors have been provided with appropriate means of diagnosing problems so that they can take immediate actions to prevent or overcome those situations. The aim of this paper is to present an analysis of an Object Oriented Programming course supported by a Moodle platform. Therefore, we have carried out the mining of an eLearning database and represented the more relevant results by depicting them a visualization based on the tag cloud visual representation.

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