An Online Multiplayer Game for Collaborative Problem
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2012-09-25
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Teaching computer programming to novices has always posed a major challenge to educators, most novices acquire basic programming skills but they are unable to utilize them in a meaningful way to solve many of the non-routine problems which are presented to them. As a result, they do not achieve any level of programming fluency. Collaboration has been identified as a useful tool to help overcome this problem if utilized at the right times during the programming/problem solving process. This paper presents a review of computer supported collaborative learning (CSCL) concepts, collaboration in programming and the problem solving domain. Finally, a design for a gaming application of CSCL (COPS) to help improve the problem solving ability of novice programmers is presented.
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Collaboration, CSCL, Gaming, Multiplayer, Problem solving, Novice, Programming, Motivation, Metacognition, Flowchart, Collaborative learning, Groups