ITR: Universal Access to Programming--A Cross-Generation Learning Community

罗森，玛丽弗吉尼亚理工学院和州立大学itr：编程的普遍获取——跨代学习社区终身学习的问题可以通过非正式教育来解决——在不同的环境中（通常在传统教室之外）进行的自愿和自主的学习活动，包括各种学习方法，并受到好奇心等内在兴趣的激励，完成任务本身，或社会互动。这些非正式活动的自愿和自我导向性质使其成为接触传统教育环境之外人口的理想选择。关于编程的非正式教育，现代视觉模拟环境有许多吸引人的特点。本研究将在一个正在进行的社区网络基础设施研究项目的背景下，调查最先进的模拟编程环境作为对不同最终用户程序员的非正式教育的支持的有效性。主要研究目标包括：*通过可视化模拟编程获得的编程素养特征，并确定最终用户的成熟度和背景如何介导这种知识及其指控。*分析现有本地社区作为一个学习型社区在培养和维持不同年龄和角色的最终用户的编程技能方面所扮演的角色。*原型和评估一个框架，用于在学习社区中积累和共享最终用户编程的工件和实践。

EIA-0081102Rosson, MaryVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State UniversityITR: Universal Access to Programming-- A Cross-Generational LearningCommunityIssues of lifelong learning can be addressed by informal education--voluntary and self-directed learning activities taking place in diversesettings (often outside traditional classrooms) that incorporate a varietyof learning methods and are motivated by intrinsic interests such ascuriosity, completion of a task itself, or social interaction. Thevoluntary and self-directed nature of these informal activities make themideal for reaching populations outside traditional education settings.With respect to informal education on programming, modern visual simulationenvironments have many features that make them appealing. This researchwill investigate the effectiveness of a state-of-the-art simulationprogramming environment as support for informal education of a diversepopulation of end-user programmers within the context of an ongoingresearch project on community network infrastructure. Key researchobjectives include:* Characterization of the programming literacy gained through visualsimulation programming and a determination of how this knowledge and itsaccusation is mediated by the maturity and background of end users.* Analysis of the role of the existing local community as a learningcommunity in building and maintaining the programming skills of end usersof varying ages and roles.* Prototyping and evaluating a framework for cumulating and sharing theartifacts and practices of end-user programming within the learningcommunity.