A Survey of Online Learning Platforms with Initial Investigation of Situation-Awareness to Facilitate Programming Education
Rasha Al Bashaireh, Hua Ming · 2018
With the advancement of today's ubiquitous technology, and due to the increasing number of technologies supported by the Internet, a variety of Online Learning Platforms have rapidly grown as modern learning methods. This fast-emerging learning option interests researchers to study and investigate the main features and functionality of the most popular Online Learning Platforms. This paper surveys the state-of-the-art Online Learning Platforms that aim to teach computer programming, in terms of principles, design, and implementations. In addition, the paper investigates the feasibility of incorporating human-oriented Situation-Awareness as the driving factor to facilitate the delivery of improved user learning experiences.