Learning to Program using Immersive Approaches: A Case Study
Channel: Richard Self
Date: 2016-06-30

This presentation was given at the Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN) 2016 conference in UCSB in Santa Barbara, CA, USA on 28 June 2016. 

It presents an approach used at the University of Derby to develop the soft skills needed in order to be a valuable employee to our students in the BSc IT programme.

One novelty of the approach is the use of soft skills based assessment using video presentations that simulate business processes and requirements in place of the more normal system demonstrations or code walk-through.

It is an approach that also leads to improved performance and levels of achievement.