A Strategy to Increase Students’ Motivation and Decrease Dropout Rates on Computer Programming Courses in a Public Institute of Education and Technology

Alexandre Correia; Essi Ryymin; Fernando Pacheco; Paivi Aarreniemi-Jokipelto; Brian Joyce

EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2015 (Jun 22, 2015) pp. 1171–1176

This paper is a report on a exploratory design research of educational intervention conducted on a public institute of education and technology. The institution of 3,000 students is an important regional educator in Sao Francisco Valley, which is...

Topics: Computer Sciences, improving classroom teaching, Programming, Teaching/Learning Strategies, pedagogical issues