Student-Centered Learning in a University Programming Course

Abstract

In teaching Object Oriented Programming to university students, we have noticed that motivation is vital for the correct transmission of key concepts. In particular, engaging students provides a particular challenge that has changed over the recent years. To address this, in our OOP course in the University of Buenos Aires, we have been incorporating a variation of the flipped classroom approach we call Student Centered Learning. We have seen a good reception of this on behalf of our students, which has given us reason to maintain and improve on this strategy, while looking for more hard data so support the results.