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Mitchel Resnick.
Fernando, Champika
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Architecture. Program in Media Arts and Sciences.
Program in Media Arts and Sciences (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
2015-02-25T17:13:12Z
2015-02-25T17:13:12Z
2014
2014
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/95602
903899532
Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, 2014.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 71-72).
This thesis explores how we can design online learning communities to better support connections to the people and resources beginners need when learning to program. I describe and analyze the design and implementation of the Scripts Workshop, a learning environment that supports members of the Scratch online community who are stuck on a programming problem in a Scratch project. The Scripts Workshop considers the People, Activities and Spaces needed to support these users in getting un-stuck. I conclude by describing a set of design principles for building learning webs within online communities, derived from the Scripts Workshop experiment.
by Champika Fernando.
S.M.
72 pages
eng
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Online learning webs : designing support structures for online communities
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