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Open Resources as the Educational Basis for a Bachelor-level Project-Based Course

Ville IsomöttönenTommi Kärkkäinen

subject

ta113Knowledge managementComputer sciencebusiness.industrymedia_common.quotation_subjectCreativityBachelorOpen APICourse (navigation)Open dataSoftwareOpen APIProject basedOpen Dataproject-basedComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATIONMathematics educationta516Product (category theory)innovation abilitybusinesscreativitymedia_common

description

This article presents an innovation-based course concept for project-based learning. In this course, student groups are asked to ideate and implement a software product based on Open Data and Open API releases. By emphasizing students’ own product ideation, the course requires and enhances self-directed learning skills and prompts the students to see the unlimited possibilities in becoming and being a practitioner of the computing discipline. Relatedly, the course provides a tool to improve student self-efficacy, as the students, coached through challenges, come to know that they are able to produce software using various open interfaces.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2015-01-01
10.5220/0005432100460056http://juuli.fi/Record/0009243715