diff --git a/book.org b/book.org index 18106bc..a3c41ba 100644 --- a/book.org +++ b/book.org @@ -413,6 +413,33 @@ The evaluation tracks which submissions have been manually assessed, so that ana :CUSTOM_ID: chap:use :END: +Dodona's design decisions have allowed it to spread to more than 1\thinsp{}000 schools, colleges and universities, mainly in Flanders (Belgium) and the Netherlands. +The renewed interest in embedding computational thinking in formal education has undoubtedly been an important stimulus for such a wide uptake\nbsp{}[cite:@wingComputationalThinking2006]. +All other educational institutions use the version of Dodona hosted at Ghent University, which is free to use for educational purposes. + +Dodona currently hosts a collection of 15 thousand learning activities that are freely available to all teachers, allowing them to create their own learning paths tailored to their teaching practice. +In total, 61 thousand students have submitted more than 15 million solutions to Dodona in the seven years that it has been running (Figures\nbsp{}[[fig:useadoption1]] & [[fig:useadoption2]]). + +#+CAPTION: Overview of the number of submitted solutions by academic year. +#+NAME: fig:useadoption1 +[[./images/useadoption1.png]] + +#+CAPTION: Overview of the number of active users by academic year. +#+CAPTION: Users were active when they submitted at least one solution for a programming assignment during the academic year. +#+NAME: fig:useadoption2 +[[./images/useadoption2.png]] + +A qualitative user experience study of Dodona was performed in 2018. +271 higher education students responded to a questionnaire that contained the following three questions: +#+ATTR_LATEX: :environment enumerate* +#+ATTR_LATEX: :options [label={\emph{\roman*)}}, itemjoin={{ }}, itemjoin*={{ }}] +- What are the things you value while working with Dodona? +- What are the things that bother you while working with Dodona? +- What are your suggestions for improvements to Dodona? +Students praised its user-friendliness, beautiful interface, immediate feedback with visualized differences between expected and generated output, integration of the Python Tutor, linting feedback and large number of test cases. +Negative points were related to differences between the students’ local execution environments and the environment in which Dodona runs the tests, and the strictness with which the tests are evaluated. +Other negative feedback was mostly related to individual courses the students were taking instead of the platform itself. + ** University level :PROPERTIES: :CREATED: [2023-10-23 Mon 08:48] diff --git a/images/useadoption1.png b/images/useadoption1.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2f0da6e Binary files /dev/null and b/images/useadoption1.png differ diff --git a/images/useadoption2.png b/images/useadoption2.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..50f8286 Binary files /dev/null and b/images/useadoption2.png differ