Using Student-created Instructional Videos in CS Upper-level Courses: A Successful Strategy in a Functional Programming Course

Pedro Feijóo-García, Christina Gardner-McCune

2020

Abstract

In this paper we present findings on a pedagogical approach we designed to enhance students' understanding of Functional Programming, in which they were required to create two video-tutorials. The first video-tutorial assignment asked the students to develop explanations of Functional Programming concepts. The second video-tutorial required them to explain their solutions while completing coding exercises using Haskell. We present a detailed description of the activities, their evaluation, and their impact on students' learning, motivation, and performance. Our findings suggest that the use of a student-created video-tutorial approach can be effective for increasing students’ understanding, performance, and engagement on Functional Programming assessments. This suggests that using student-created video tutorials may be a promising strategy to implement in other computing courses.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Feijóo-García P. and Gardner-McCune C. (2020). Using Student-created Instructional Videos in CS Upper-level Courses: A Successful Strategy in a Functional Programming Course.In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU, ISBN 978-989-758-417-6, pages 412-419. DOI: 10.5220/0009416404120419

in Bibtex Style

@conference{csedu20,
author={Pedro Feijóo-García and Christina Gardner-McCune},
title={Using Student-created Instructional Videos in CS Upper-level Courses: A Successful Strategy in a Functional Programming Course},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU,},
year={2020},
pages={412-419},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009416404120419},
isbn={978-989-758-417-6},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU,
TI - Using Student-created Instructional Videos in CS Upper-level Courses: A Successful Strategy in a Functional Programming Course
SN - 978-989-758-417-6
AU - Feijóo-García P.
AU - Gardner-McCune C.
PY - 2020
SP - 412
EP - 419
DO - 10.5220/0009416404120419