Developing an automated coding tutorial OER

Inspired by recent Open Educational Resource (OER) development successes in a Sino-foreign Higher Education Institution in China, we were motivated to explore the possibility of creating a new OER to assist in the learning of programming languages: an automated tutorial system for Java. The approach to this project has been influenced by the Students as Change Agents (SACA) programme, which emphasises student participation and influence on their own education experiences. This paper reports on this project as a work-in-progress, describing the background and motivation, and some related work, and presenting our proposed system. The approach to the development, and implementation completed so far are explained, and our on-going and future work are summarised.