TEACHING PROGRAMMING WITH ECLiP DIDACTICAL APPROACH
Αγορίτσα Γόγουλου, Evangelia Gouli, Maria Grigoriadou · 2009
ECLiP aims to establish a learning setting which supports students’ active involvement and contributes to the knowledge construction and the development of skills in programming through the elaboration of explorative and collaborative activities. In this work, we present the main principles of ECLiP, the three-step process for the design of activities and the design and application of three sets of ECLiP activities for the loop constructs. The results from the experimental study revealed that both the teacher and the students admitted positively the whole approach, believe that the context of the ECLiP activities can help them in understanding the function of the loop constructs and in using them in solving problems and expressed their willingness to be involved in such a didactical approach for learning various programming concepts.