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ICT has the potential to enhance and transform higher education in many ways and it’s seen as important tool to enable and support the move from traditional ‘teacher-centric’ teaching styles to more ‘learner-centric’ methods. In this article, we describe and analyze one curricular experiment in the use of ICT in a programming course of an engineering degree. In this course, our students form part of a heterogeneous group with different programming skills. We have checked that the use ICTs in our programming course, increases students’ motivation and the examination pass rates.
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Ojeda-Guerra, C.N. (2015). Using ICT to Motivate Students in a Heterogeneous Programming Group. In: Mascio, T., Gennari, R., Vittorini, P., De la Prieta, F. (eds) Methodologies and Intelligent Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 374. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19632-9_5
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