EXP: Enabling Pedagogical Communication Between Learning and Programming Environments

计算机能力的持续增长导致了迭代软件开发环境（IDE）的重大进步，这些环境旨在帮助程序员有效地计划，编写，测试和修复程序。提供学习资源和活动的学习管理系统（LMS）也同样发展为支持良好的教学实践，例如在学科的整个过程中进行协作工作和嵌入式评估。这个项目正在研究将LMS链接到IDE的方法，使计算机教师能够更好地支持学生的学习。预计这项调查，针对本科和高级高中学生，将导致更好地学习不仅计算概念，但设计和实施复杂的软件所需的编程实践。研究和评估活动旨在调查学生的学习和参与以及教师改变其支持学生的做法的方式。将通过专业会议和在线资料库向技术和教育界广泛传播项目结果沿着工具和成套课程活动。虽然集成的软件环境和指导方针的有效使用，以促进学习将广泛适用于计算机科学教育，预计这一努力也将提供更一般的指导方针，整合学习管理系统与生产力支持系统在其他领域和学科。沿着学生将从教师和同学那里得到更多的支持和反馈，预计将为所有学习计算和软件工程的学生提供有价值的支持，特别是那些传统上在计算课程中代表性不足的学生或者可能会辍学的人研究结果将为软件系统的设计提供信息，该系统将学习管理系统与生产力支持系统相结合，使不同学科的学生能够更好地了解学科实践的重大挑战，更好地获得应对这些挑战的实践，并更好地获得应对这些挑战所需的知识和技能。

Continuing increases in computer power have led to significant advances in iteractive software-development environments (IDEs) that aim to help programmers plan, write, test, and fix programs efficiently. Learning management systems (LMSs), which make available learning resources and activities, have similarly evolved to support good pedagogical practice, such as collaborative work and embedded assessments, over the entire course of a discipline. This project is investigating practices for linking an LMS to an IDE in ways that will enable computer instructors to better support their students' learning. It is expected that this investigation, aimed at undergraduate and advanced high-school students, will result in better learning not only of computing concepts but of programming practices required for designing and implementing sophisticated software. Research and evaluation activities are aimed at investigating student learning and engagement and the ways that teachers change their practice in supporting students. The project findings, along with the tools and packaged curricular activities, are to be widely disseminated to technical and educational communities through professional meetings and online repositories. While the integrated software environment and guidelines about effective use for promoting learning will be broadly useful for computer science education, it is expected that this effort will also provide more general guidelines about integrating learning management systems with productivity-support systems in other domains and disciplines.New curricular activities enabled by this integration, along with the increased support and feedback that students will receive from both instructors and classmates, are expected to provide valuable support to all students learning computing and software engineering but especially to students who are traditionally underrepresented in computing courses or who might otherwise drop out. Results of research will inform design of software systems that integrate learning-management systems with productivity-support systems to allow students across a variety of disciplines better gain insight into the big challenges of the disciplinary practice, better gain practice addressing those types of challenges, and better gain knowledge and skills needed to address those challenges.