An Open MOOC

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• First of a series of three on edX platform

• 5 weeks (course open from 28 April to 30 June 2015)

• Re-run in self-paced mode as from 17 Nov 2015

• Contents available under CC license

Teaching staff

>71.000 enrollees from 200 countries

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Course structure

4 main subsections including: videos, formative exercises, complementary texts

Laboratory (formative): Common storyline Recap: Summary and (some) solutions Exam: Summative (15% each) Peer-review (only in weeks 3 and 5): Summative

(10% and 15%) Want to practice more? (formative) Students’ view

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Videos

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Automatic assessment

• Formative assessment activities to check the understanding of basic concepts and common mistakes

• Summative assessment activities to grade learners

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External tools: Blockly

• Integrated through an HTML IFrame in edX (web)

• To fail soon and in a fun way• To introduce students in

programming through games and mazes

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External tools: Codeboard

• Integrated through IMS LTI in edX (web)• For simple programs aimed at practicing

concepts • For more complex programs that learners

had to code from scratch.

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External tools: Greenfoot

• Standalone IDE that learners had to install

• To teach object orientation in a fun way and creating graphical user interfaces in a very fast way.

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Laboratory

• Common storyline• Increasing difficulty• Using Blockly and

Codeboard as supporting tools

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Students’ view

• Learners from the American School of Madrid discussing what they have learned each week

Summary of contents generated by teachers

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70 videos 6h 20m (~5m 25s per video)

578 exercises

619 forum messages

496 with edX built-in tools

82 with external tools(Blockly, Codeboard and Greenfoot)

Overall learners’ assessment

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