RetoñosApp: Work in Progress on a Platform to Support the Teaching of Programming in CS through the Automation and Customization of Learning Processes Guided by Artificial Intelligence

David Valoyes-Porras, Juan Rodríguez-Obregón, David Salamanca-Sánchez, Miguel Feijóo-García

2022

Abstract

Learning difficulties in Computer Science (CS) are a multicausal problem that promotes student dropout in CS undergraduate programs. This results from the students’ psychological, emotional, and motivational implications, affecting their academic performance. We present RetoñosApp, as a web-based and user-centered platform supported by Artificial Intelligence (AI) that assists the teaching and learning processes for CS. It fosters the students’ autonomous learning, and provides accompaniment and feedback to students during their academic term, and CS instructors on their students’ learning processes. This web-based tool uses a Conversational Bot as an autonomous and synchronous virtual tutor, and a Content-based Recommendation System to generate customized reports with “educational routes” to students and instructors, based on their needs. We evaluated this web-based tool, and reported the findings and results, considering its efficiency and effectiveness, based on the participants’ interaction. This, in order to answer how the platform supported and complemented the teaching and learning processes of programming in CS, evaluating its potential to be part of the educational methodology of further CS undergraduate courses. Our findings from the pilot study suggest that RetoñosApp effectively provides a friendly user-centered asynchronous assistance and enhancement to learning processes, and frequent feedback on teaching processes.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Valoyes-Porras D., Rodríguez-Obregón J., Salamanca-Sánchez D. and Feijóo-García M. (2022). RetoñosApp: Work in Progress on a Platform to Support the Teaching of Programming in CS through the Automation and Customization of Learning Processes Guided by Artificial Intelligence. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications - Volume 1: CHIRA, ISBN 978-989-758-609-5, pages 179-186. DOI: 10.5220/0011538200003323

in Bibtex Style

@conference{chira22,
author={David Valoyes-Porras and Juan Rodríguez-Obregón and David Salamanca-Sánchez and Miguel Feijóo-García},
title={RetoñosApp: Work in Progress on a Platform to Support the Teaching of Programming in CS through the Automation and Customization of Learning Processes Guided by Artificial Intelligence},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications - Volume 1: CHIRA,},
year={2022},
pages={179-186},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0011538200003323},
isbn={978-989-758-609-5},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications - Volume 1: CHIRA,
TI - RetoñosApp: Work in Progress on a Platform to Support the Teaching of Programming in CS through the Automation and Customization of Learning Processes Guided by Artificial Intelligence
SN - 978-989-758-609-5
AU - Valoyes-Porras D.
AU - Rodríguez-Obregón J.
AU - Salamanca-Sánchez D.
AU - Feijóo-García M.
PY - 2022
SP - 179
EP - 186
DO - 10.5220/0011538200003323