This research is focused on how to support students' acquisition of program construction
skills through worked examples. Although examples have been consistently proven to be …

For the past decade, video game-and gamification-elements get used in different fields of
research. However, a contextualized usage of these elements is still underrepresented in …

This study seeks to identify the challenges many adult Distance Education students face
when learning program-ming. It reviews the literature on strategies intended to address …

The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic gave rise to a need to change course syllabi in
order to completely transition to a remote learning model. In the case of subjects comprising …

Worked examples (solutions to typical programming problems presented as a source code
in a certain language and are used to explain the topics from a programming class) are …

Worked examples are among the most popular types of learning content in programming
classes. However, instructors rarely have time to provide line-by-line explanations for a large …

Learning materials provided to students during remote learning are characterized by
different technical forms and interactivity levels. The structure of the materials is often …

Initial programming education is a topic that con-tinues to spark much debate, as it is an
academic field with a notably high rate of student dropouts and failures. The challenge of …

The goal of this workshop is to bring together the existing community of researchers working
on Infrastructure Design for Data-Intensive Research in Computer Science Education and a …

My dissertation is situated in the field of computer science education research, specifically,
the learning and teaching of programming. This is a critical area to be studied, since …