Tentative Author List:
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Peter Brusilovsky, University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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Barbara Ericson, University of Michigan, USA
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Cay Horstmann, PFH Göttingen, Germany
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Craig Johnson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA
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Christian Servin, El Paso Community College, TX, USA
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Frank Vahid, University of California Riverside, CA, USA
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CS education builds on educational materials, such as textbooks, presentation slides, labs, and question test banks. Over the past 10-20 years, those materials have grown to include videos, animations, online homework systems, and auto-graded programming exercises. Educational materials aim to improve student success and elevate the instructor’s role. This article discusses the future of educational materials in CS education, including research on effective approaches. Educational materials are becoming more active, involving immediate feedback to students throughout the formative and summative stages of learning. Educational materials include more artificial intelligence to provide good feedback, adapt to the learner, and provide help. More materials are cloud-based and starting to collect and analyze data for continual improvement. Materials increasingly aim to support social aspects of learning, including peer learning and coaching. Open education resources (OER) continue to grow, as do products from educational technology companies. The need is growing to customize, create, and share materials and quickly find high-quality materials. Automation is increasing for administering a class, interoperability of tools continues to grow in importance, and LMS capabilities continue to improve. Emphasis on materials that support traditionally underrepresented students is increasing. Materials increasingly support mastery-based learning and emphasize student success over student filtering. Educational materials will continue to include both sanctioned and unsanctioned online resources like homework help websites, cloud-based code repositories, and video sharing sites, posing challenges and opportunities to instructors. This work aims to describe the future of educational materials in CS education and to encourage educators and administrators to recognize areas for development, adaptation, and innovation.
Contact: Christian Servin
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