Bringing contexts into the classroom
Detlef Rick, Marcel Morisse, Ingrid Schirmer · 2012
Project-based learning and application-oriented approaches drawing on real-world issues and examples, have always been widely used in both secondary and higher Computer Science (CS) education. Recent demands for teaching CS or Informatics in context and building courses on coherent application areas outside CS go even further [4, 23]. In Germany the open working group IniK (Informatik im Kontext) compiles educational material and concepts for teaching Informatics in context [42, 24, 10, 8]. However, there is only little theoretical foundation for IniK as an educational approach and its implementation at schools and universities [7].