Programming literacy level needed for modern teachers: Fragile border between content creator and a programmer

2014

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DOI 10.1109/educon.2014.6826164
Data confidence 70 medium
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Abstract

Modern engineering education is to a great extent bound to computers and software. It is used extensively in all areas and modern teachers often need to go beyond simple software usage scenarios such as presenting slides and showing video. This is especially true for blended and e-learning. But these new perspectives also present steep learning curves in a form of programming technologies. Creating interactive content today requires programming and software engineering skills which are usually not a strong point for most of educators. This paper presents levels of interactive content generation skills, analyzes available options and lists some of the existing programming courses specifically created for teachers. It is argued that teachers should become the first programming literate people in this century.