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Usability And Usage Of Interactive Features In An Online Ebook For Cs Teachers, Barbara Ericson, Steven Moore, Briana B. Morrison, Mark Guzdial
Usability And Usage Of Interactive Features In An Online Ebook For Cs Teachers, Barbara Ericson, Steven Moore, Briana B. Morrison, Mark Guzdial
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There are too few secondary school computing teachers to meet international needs for growing secondary school computing education. Our group has created an ebook to help prepare secondary teachers to teach the programming and big data concepts in the new AP Computer Science Principles course. The ebook was designed using principles from educational psychology, specifically worked examples and cognitive load. The ebook interleaves worked examples and interactive practice activities, which we believe will lead to more efficient and effective learning than more typical approaches to learning programming. This paper reports the results from initial studies of our ebook. First, we …