Computing Competences. Innovative learning approach for non-IT students

CC INFINITE

Title: Computing Competences. Innovative learning approach for non-IT students
Funding Programme: EU ERASMUS +
Duration of the Project: 34 months
EC Co-financing: 213,362 EUR
Start Date: 1st October 2018

Aims and Objectives

The project is a partnership between the University of Silesia the EDU-RES foundation (both Poland), Catholic University of Murcia (Spain), University of Bari Aldo Moro (Italy) and the University of Bedfordshire (UK).

European Strategy 2020 stressed an importance of 'Smart Growth' which includes developing an economy based on knowledge and innovation. There is a need to increase the competencies in programming, coding and computational thinking skills, especially for non-IT specialists. Thus the aim of the project in to increase innovation and interdisciplinarity of higher education through the development of programming courses for non-IT students.

The specific objectives

To strengthen cooperation between partner institutions and increase their internationalisation through the exchange of good practice in jointly developed educational materials
To evaluate the effectiveness of the programming courses in four European Universities
To promote an idea of open education and open software
To enhance the quality and relevance of students' knowledge

The target audience will be non-IT students from four countries who will be testing and evaluating a newly developed course.

Outputs

Interactive online course consisting of 12 introductory and 30 main lessons
Programming exercises (210 in total)
Automatic evaluation system

The free programming course is available for all interested parties through e-learning platform.

Project News and Updates

CC Infinite 2021 Transnational Meeting in a Virtual Space
CC Infinite official website is now live, with detailed information on project's description, partners meetings and project's results:
- Online course in programming
- Methodology for non-IT students
- Programming exercises