Emphasizing soft skills and team development in an educational digital game design course

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 240-247

  Brown, Quincy ^a   Lee, Frank ^a   Alejandre, Suzanne ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer science education; Games; Multidisciplinary

Indexed keywords

CAPSTONE COURSE; COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATION; DIGITAL GAMES; EDUCATIONAL GAME; EDUCATIONAL VIDEOS; K-12 SCHOOLS; LESSONS LEARNED; MULTI-DISCIPLINARY TEAMS; REAL-WORLD GAMES; SOFT SKILLS; TEAM DEVELOPMENT; TECHNICAL SKILLS; VIDEO GAME;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CURRICULA; DESIGN; EDUCATIONAL MOTION PICTURES; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; PERSONNEL TRAINING; STUDENTS; TEACHING;

EDUCATION COMPUTING;

EID: 77953593982     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1536513.1536557     Document Type: Conference Paper

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