Eunsill Jang, Jaehyoun Kim, Journal of Internet Computing and Services, Vol. 20, No. 4, pp. 81-90, Aug. 2019
10.7472/jksii.2019.20.4.81, Full Text:
Keywords: Basic Software Education of Non-majors Students, integrated Thinking, Creative Thinking, Computational Thinking, Problem Solving, Basic Software Education, Software-oriented University in Korea

Abstract

Since 2015, the government has been striving to strengthen the software capabilities required for future talent through software-oriented university in Korea. In the university selected as a software-oriented university, basic software education is given to all departments such as humanities, social science, engineering, natural science, arts and the sports within the university in order to foster convergent human resources with different knowledge and software literacy. In this paper, we analyze the contents of basic software education for twenty universities selected as software-oriented universities. As a result of analysis, most of the basic software education which is carried out to the students of the non-majors students was aimed at improvement of problem solving ability centered on computational thinking for future society and improvement of convergence ability based on computer science. It uses block-based educational programming language and text-based advanced programming language to adjust the difficulty of programming contents and contents reflecting characteristics of each major. Problem-based learning, project-based learning, and discussion method were used as the teaching and learning methods for problem solving. In the future, this paper will help to establish the systematic direction for basic software education of non-majors students.

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