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Mr. Carles Garcia-Lopez
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)

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Conference paper
Published: 03 July 2021 in Algorithms and Data Structures
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Educational laboratories are flexible environments that allow learners to learn by practice, fostering their creativity, learning awareness, and collaboration with peers. Bringing these laboratory environments to an online setting is both challenging and necessary, particularly nowadays, when a significant part of learning takes place in online settings. Educational laboratories are well-suited places for learning to code, which is stated to require a great effort from learners, especially for non-STEM learners. This paper presents the design, development, and evaluation of CodeLab, a laboratory-based platform for learning to code through practice. A user-centered design approach was carried out, making learners active members of the design process through different design methods. As a result of two design iterations, CodeLab provides an integrated practice environment with a learning path based on a list of challenges and activities. Learners solve these activities and engage with their learning process by being aware of their own progress. The tool conveys a laboratory experience to non-STEM learners, fostering their practice skills, assessment, and autonomy.

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Carles Garcia-Lopez; Enric Mor; Susanna Tesconi. CodeLab: An Online Laboratory for Learning to Code. Algorithms and Data Structures 2021, 437 -455.

AMA Style

Carles Garcia-Lopez, Enric Mor, Susanna Tesconi. CodeLab: An Online Laboratory for Learning to Code. Algorithms and Data Structures. 2021; ():437-455.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Carles Garcia-Lopez; Enric Mor; Susanna Tesconi. 2021. "CodeLab: An Online Laboratory for Learning to Code." Algorithms and Data Structures , no. : 437-455.

Journal article
Published: 09 September 2020 in Sustainability
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Open educational resources (OER) play an important role in teaching and learning, especially in lifelong learning. Educational resources should be created in a way that addresses lifelong learners’ needs. Human-centered design (HCD) is a design perspective and an iterative process that involves users in all phases of the process. Thus, an HCD approach can provide relevant advantages when creating OER for lifelong learning. This work presents the Design Toolkit as a case study of digital open educational contents for design education that has been created following an HCD process. The orientation of the Design Toolkit is to provide users OER in a tool format rather than in a traditional manner. The main goal of this research is to contribute to the understanding of how HCD impacts OER creation. The research focuses on teachers, assessing the Design Toolkit content organization and analyzing teacher adoption and usage of the resources. The HCD approach fosters teachers’ satisfaction, promotes OER adoption and provides new design requirements for a future iteration of the HCD process. The results show that designing OER involving users through an HCD approach sets the focus adequately on their needs and limitations. Teachers feel satisfied with the Design Toolkit, fostering the adoption of OER in different educational contexts. Finally, users’ involvement in the whole HCD process points out design and educational requirements for future work.

ACS Style

Carles Garcia-Lopez; Enric Mor; Susanna Tesconi. Human-Centered Design as an Approach to Create Open Educational Resources. Sustainability 2020, 12, 7397 .

AMA Style

Carles Garcia-Lopez, Enric Mor, Susanna Tesconi. Human-Centered Design as an Approach to Create Open Educational Resources. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (18):7397.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Carles Garcia-Lopez; Enric Mor; Susanna Tesconi. 2020. "Human-Centered Design as an Approach to Create Open Educational Resources." Sustainability 12, no. 18: 7397.

Conference paper
Published: 27 June 2019 in Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV
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This paper presents the design process and implementation of a design knowledge repository. In recent years, design evolved into a broad discipline with a large application field. From an educational point of view, this design expansion brings the need to rebuild design contents and resources for both practitioners and learners. We designed and developed a repository of design resources. The design process followed a user-centered design approach, taking into account different types of users with learning needs. Design contents were analyzed taking into account the new challenges and disciplines of design and the educational needs of practitioners and learners. Three main types of design contents were identified and also the need to provide tools instead of simply contents, that is, up-to-date and actionable resources that, at the same time, lead to reflection and critical thinking. These tools were arranged into a toolbox, a knowledge repository that became a toolkit. The toolkit provides an adaptable navigation system that allows either direct access or exploration of the available tools.

ACS Style

Carles Garcia-Lopez; Susanna Tesconi; Enric Mor. Designing Design Resources: From Contents to Tools. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 2019, 87 -100.

AMA Style

Carles Garcia-Lopez, Susanna Tesconi, Enric Mor. Designing Design Resources: From Contents to Tools. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV. 2019; ():87-100.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Carles Garcia-Lopez; Susanna Tesconi; Enric Mor. 2019. "Designing Design Resources: From Contents to Tools." Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV , no. : 87-100.