Online Student Engagement: A Case Study in Teaching of Programming

Resumo

Technological support changed the teaching-learning process. Today, there are tools to deliver educational content, communication between peers and instructors, and monitor student progress. Learning management system guides the teaching process and helps the tracking of online student engagement. Student engagement is seen as a valid indicator of academic success. It is aimed at understanding, explaining, and predicting student behavior in learning environments. Student involvement is critical to the learning experience, especially in the online environment, where students can study anywhere and anytime, alone or not. Some indicators signal the behavior of the learner, and that can detect if a learner is uncommitted. In this paper, we suggested a metric called learning pace to signal how learner progress in the current stage of the course. We explored existing data records of an online learning environment as indicators of student engagement in programming education. The results show that learning pace, session, and assignments made correlate with student performance.