Phased Classroom Instruction: A Case Study on Teaching Programming Languages

摘要

This article describes a novel educational format called "phased classroom instruction" and its enabling technology specially tuned to the effective learning of formal languages in tertiary STEM education. Like flipped classroom, phased classroom instruction aims at promoting active learning. In contrast to flipped classroom, phased classroom instruction scales to large classes thanks to its associated enabling technology. The article reports on a real-life evaluation of the proposed format and of its enabling technology pointing to their effectiveness.