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Towards s'more connected coding camps

Ilenia Fronza, Petri Ihantola, Olli-Pekka Riikola, Gennaro Iaccarino, Tommi Mikkonen, Linda García Rytman, Vesa Lappalainen, Cristina Rebollo Santamaría, Inmaculada Remolar Quintana, Veronica Rossano

TL;DR

This paper presents the vision of the European initiative OSCAR, which aims at connecting coding camps to the educational and professional context faced by the learners, and sketches a supporting platform and its features for connected coding camps.

Abstract

Coding camps bring together individuals from diverse backgrounds to tackle given challenges within a limited timeframe. Such camps create a rich learning environment for various skills, some of which are directly associated with the camp, and some of which are a result of working as a team during the camp. Unfortunately, coding camps often remain isolated from the broader educational curriculum or other bigger context, which downplays the opportunities they can offer to students. In this paper, we present the vision of the European initiative Oscar, which aims at connecting coding camps to the educational and professional context faced by the learners. In addition, we sketch a supporting platform and its features for connected coding camps.

Towards s'more connected coding camps

TL;DR

This paper presents the vision of the European initiative OSCAR, which aims at connecting coding camps to the educational and professional context faced by the learners, and sketches a supporting platform and its features for connected coding camps.

Abstract

Coding camps bring together individuals from diverse backgrounds to tackle given challenges within a limited timeframe. Such camps create a rich learning environment for various skills, some of which are directly associated with the camp, and some of which are a result of working as a team during the camp. Unfortunately, coding camps often remain isolated from the broader educational curriculum or other bigger context, which downplays the opportunities they can offer to students. In this paper, we present the vision of the European initiative Oscar, which aims at connecting coding camps to the educational and professional context faced by the learners. In addition, we sketch a supporting platform and its features for connected coding camps.

Paper Structure

This paper contains 13 sections, 3 figures, 1 table.

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Timeline of a typical coding camp
  3. Pre-event phase
  4. Event phase
  5. Post-event phase
  6. Vision: a connected coding camp
  7. Learning goals of a connected coding camp
  8. Timeline of a connected coding camp
  9. Pre-event phase: Setting goals and expectations
  10. Event: Different learning goals
  11. Post-event: Connecting coding camp with the overall educational experience.
  12. Platform to enable connected coding camps
  13. Discussion and Conclusions

Figures (3)

  • Figure 1: Timeline of a typical coding camp.
  • Figure 2: Timeline of a connected coding camp. Highlighted in italic type are the activities improved compared to a typical coding camp; highlighted in bold are the new possibilities unlocked by the connected coding camp. The numbers in parenthesis after each activity indicate the enabling features of the platform, as detailed in Section \ref{['subsec:platform']}.
  • Figure 3: Main features of the platform to enable a connected coding camp.