TY  - GEN
A1  - Staubitz, Thomas
A1  - Teusner, Ralf
A1  - Meinel, Christoph
T1  - MOOCs in Secondary Education
BT  - Experiments and Observations from German Classrooms
T2  - 2019 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON)
N2  - Computer science education in German schools is often less than optimal. It is only mandatory in a few of the federal states and there is a lack of qualified teachers. As a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) provider with a German background, we developed the idea to implement a MOOC addressing pupils in secondary schools to fill this gap. The course targeted high school pupils and enabled them to learn the Python programming language. In 2014, we successfully conducted the first iteration of this MOOC with more than 7000 participants. However, the share of pupils in the course was not quite satisfactory. So we conducted several workshops with teachers to find out why they had not used the course to the extent that we had imagined. The paper at hand explores and discusses the steps we have taken in the following years as a result of these workshops.
KW  - MOOC
KW  - Secondary Education
KW  - School
KW  - Teamwork
KW  - K-12
KW  - Programming course
KW  - Java
KW  - Python
Y1  - 2019
SN  - 978-1-5386-9506-7
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON.2019.8725138
SN  - 2165-9567
SP  - 173
EP  - 182
PB  - IEEE
CY  - New York
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Quasthoff, Matthias
A1  - Meinel, Christoph
T1  - Supporting object-oriented programming of semantic-web software
JF  - IEEE transactions on systems, man, and cybernetics : Part C, Applications and reviews
N2  - This paper presents the state of the art in the development of Semantic-Web-enabled software using object-oriented programming languages. Object triple mapping (OTM) is a frequently used method to simplify the development of such software. A case study that is based on interviews with developers of OTM frameworks is presented at the core of this paper. Following the results of the case study, the formalization of OTM is kept separate from optional but desirable extensions of OTM with regard to metadata, schema matching, and integration into the Semantic-Web infrastructure. The material that is presented is expected to not only explain the development of Semantic-Web software by the usage of OTM, but also explain what properties of Semantic-Web software made developers come up with OTM. Understanding the latter will be essential to get nonexpert software developers to use Semantic-Web technologies in their software.
KW  - Resource description framework
KW  - Software
KW  - Java
KW  - Data models
KW  - Programming
KW  - Interviews
Y1  - 2012
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1109/TSMCC.2011.2151282
SN  - 1094-6977
VL  - 42
IS  - 1
SP  - 15
EP  - 24
PB  - Inst. of Electr. and Electronics Engineers
CY  - Piscataway
ER  -