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Engagement in the course of programming in higher education through the use of gamification

verfasst von: Arturo Rojas-López, Elvira G. Rincón-Flores, Juanjo Mena, Francisco José García-Peñalvo, María Soledad Ramírez-Montoya

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Programming learning in college education is hard for students. Consequently, strategies are required to boost significant learning as well as sustained motivation during the delivery of the course. For this reason, the following investigation determines if the didactic strategy of gamification encourages engagement in a university level programming course. The article presents two interventions that took place during the period of January to April 2017 and January to April 2018 in a University of Mexico using the challenge-based gamification pedagogical strategy. This strategy supports the Werbach and Hunter methodology. The dynamics were emotional, social, and progressive and were conducted through challenge and opportunities mechanics. The components were points, badges, avatars, and a leaderboard. In both interventions, surveys were used to know the acceptance of the strategy on behalf of the students, and a meta-evaluation instrument was applied after the first intervention with the purpose of strengthening and improving the didactic strategy. The main conclusion of this work indicates that gamification in the classroom contributed to improve the engagement with the students to succeed in solving the challenges successfully; therefore, the pedagogical strategy under scrutiny can be applied to other subjects.

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Titel: Engagement in the course of programming in higher education through the use of gamification
verfasst von: Arturo Rojas-López
Elvira G. Rincón-Flores
Juanjo Mena
Francisco José García-Peñalvo
María Soledad Ramírez-Montoya
Publikationsdatum: 22.07.2019
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Erschienen in: Universal Access in the Information Society / Ausgabe 3/2019
Print ISSN: 1615-5289
Elektronische ISSN: 1615-5297
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10209-019-00680-z

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