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Learning by coding: a sociocultural approach to teaching web development in higher education
Kristianstad University, Faculty of Business, Avdelningen för design.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9740-2609
Kristianstad University, Faculty of Business, Avdelningen för design.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-3312-3045
Umeå universitet.
Stockholms universitet.
2020 (English)In: Education and Information Technologies: Official Journal of the IFIP technical committee on Education, ISSN 1360-2357, E-ISSN 1573-7608, Vol. 25, no 3, p. 1759-1783Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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As information technology continues to evolve rapidly in society, coding skills become increasingly essential to develop. The purpose of this article is to examine differences between the learner-centered and sociocultural approaches when teaching and learning coding in higher education. A quasi-experiment was applied over six academic semesters evaluating the mentioned approaches in terms of students’ explicit attitudes, grades, and course evaluations. The findings indicated that the sociocultural approach may be a viable alternative to the learner-centered approach. More specifically, students indicated a preference for the sociocultural approach over the learner-centered approach, a greater number of students who passed the courses were educated via the sociocultural approach, and overall satisfaction was significantly higher for this approach as well. While the sociocultural approach has demonstrated to be advantageous, its integration in courses must concurrently be carefully balanced against constraints that teachers continuously experience in higher education, such as time and resources, which presents a challenge to the design of courses and to academia at large.

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2020. Vol. 25, no 3, p. 1759-1783
Keywords [en]
sociocultural approach, learner-centered approach, coding, web development, learning, higher education
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-20138DOI: 10.1007/s10639-019-10037-xISI: 000498050800002OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hkr-20138DiVA, id: diva2:1374010
Available from: 2019-11-28 Created: 2019-11-28 Last updated: 2020-07-08Bibliographically approved

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