Addressing industry issues in a multi-disciplinary course on game design

FDG 2009 - 4th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 71-78

  Estey, Anthony ^a   Gooch, Amy ^a   Gooch, Bruce ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Computer science education; Cooperative learning; Game development; Multi discipline; Peer review

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATION; COOPERATIVE LEARNING; COURSE DESIGN; GAME DESIGN; MULTI-DISCIPLINARY; NEGATIVE IMPACTS; PEER REVIEW; PROBLEM SOLVING SKILLS; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STUDENT ENGAGEMENT;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CURRICULA; DESIGN; EDUCATION COMPUTING; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; INDUSTRY; QUALITY CONTROL; STUDENTS;

TEACHING;

EID: 77953558605     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1536513.1536534     Document Type: Conference Paper

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