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Conflictive animations as engaging learning tools

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Andrés Moreno,

Roman Bednarik,

Niko MyllerAuthors Info & Claims

Koli Calling '07: Proceedings of the Seventh Baltic Sea Conference on Computing Education Research - Volume 88

Pages 203 - 206

Published: 15 November 2007 Publication History

Abstract

In this paper we introduce the concept of conflictive animations and discuss its applicability in programming and algorithm design courses. Conflictive animations are animations that deviate from the expected behaviour of the program or algorithm they are supposed to present. With respect to the engagement taxonomy, we propose several ways of learning with conflictive animations. We also initiate a discussion about their possible benefits and drawbacks.

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Moreno ASutinen EJoy MDougherty JNagel KDecker AEiselt K(2014)Defining and evaluating conflictive animations for programming educationProceedings of the 45th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education10.1145/2538862.2538888(629-634)Online publication date: 5-Mar-2014
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2538862.2538888
Moreno AMyller NMalmi LPears A(2008)Presentation of automatic conflictive animationsProceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computing Education Research10.1145/1595356.1595381(115-116)Online publication date: 13-Nov-2008
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1595356.1595381

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Koli Calling '07: Proceedings of the Seventh Baltic Sea Conference on Computing Education Research - Volume 88

November 2007

231 pages

ISBN:9781920682699

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Raymond Lister
University of Technology Sydney, Australia

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Published: 15 November 2007

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Moreno ASutinen EJoy MDougherty JNagel KDecker AEiselt K(2014)Defining and evaluating conflictive animations for programming educationProceedings of the 45th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education10.1145/2538862.2538888(629-634)Online publication date: 5-Mar-2014
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2538862.2538888
Moreno AMyller NMalmi LPears A(2008)Presentation of automatic conflictive animationsProceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computing Education Research10.1145/1595356.1595381(115-116)Online publication date: 13-Nov-2008
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1595356.1595381

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