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Project Description
The EduJudge project aims to develop an innovative system based on ICT that can be incorporated into the learning processes in the mathematical and programming field and is addressed to higher education students and secondary education students. The main goal of the EduJudge project is to give a greater pedagogic character to the UVA Online Judge (online-judge.uva.es), which is an online programming trainer that is currently running, and adapt it to an effective educational environment for higher and secondary education. For this reason the online judge will be integrated into the open source e-learning platform Moodle and the QUESTOURnament system. QUESTOURnament is also a system that is currently running to develop contests supported by telematics within the classroom. It is implemented as a module which can be integrated into Moodle. The integration of Online Judge into Moodle/QUESTOURnament seems to be the solution for some of the required pedagogical functionalities for the current system.
This project comes up on the one hand, from the necessity of improving mathematical, science and technological competences at European level as is shown by the Education and Training European Policy and, on the other hand, from the success of programming contests at European and international level in secondary and higher education and the great number of users of UVA Online Judge. These users are demanding an improvement of the Online Judge functionalities so we propose to incorporate it into an efficient learning environment. By means of this system students can develop technological and mathematical abilities, and also motivation, creativity and abilities for time and knowledge management which are very important skills for subsequent learning processes and future jobs.
Finally, it must be highlighted that Edujudge works with a distributed system for automatic evaluation so that the application field of Online Judge can be extended to other fields like language learning, for example.
