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T1 Applying Gamification in a Parallel Programming Course
A1 Fresno, Javier
A1 Ortega-Arranz, Héctor
A1 Ortega-Arranz, Alejandro
A1 González Escribano, Arturo
A1 Llanos Ferraris, Diego Rafael
K1 Informática
K1 1203 Ciencia de Los Ordenadores
K1 3304
AB Pursuing a college degree is a task that requires a great amount of time and effort. Universities are facing a big challenge to attract students and keep them motivated. The gamification of education is a practice that expects to increase the students' engagement, which in turn increases learning outcomes. Nevertheless, obtaining beneficial results from gamification requires educators to mold the teaching to include this new practice, usually involving a lot of effort. In this chapter, the authors present a new software tool developed to encourage gamification dynamics, and they describe their experience using this tool in a Parallel Programming course. The chapter describes the structure of the course, the different proposed activities, the organization of hardware resources, the design of the developed software tool, and an evaluation of the gamified course. The results show that the use of gamification techniques has been a great success. The authors have had a very positive response from their students, and there has been also a big percentage of passing students.
PB IGI Global
SN 9781522510345
YR 2017
FD 2017
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/70851
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/70851
LA eng
NO Fresno, Javier, et al. "Applying Gamification in a Parallel Programming Course." Gamification-Based E-Learning Strategies for Computer Programming Education, edited by Ricardo Alexandre Peixoto de Queirós and Mário Teixeira Pinto, IGI Global, 2017, pp. 106-130. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-1034-5.ch006
NO Innovación Educativa
DS UVaDOC
RD 04-dic-2024