So fun it hurts - Gamifying an engineering course

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 8027 LNAI, Issue , 2013, Pages 639-648

  Barata, Gabriel ^a   Gama, Sandra ^a   Jorge, Joaquim ^a   Gonçalves, Daniel ^a  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Education Gamification; Motivation; Perils; Student engagement

Indexed keywords

COLLEGE COURSE; ENGINEERING COURSE; GAMIFICATION; HEALTH CONDITION; NEGATIVE SIDE EFFECTS; NOVEL TECHNIQUES; PERILS; STUDENT ENGAGEMENT;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SCIENCE; MOTIVATION;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84884831739     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-39454-6_68     Document Type: Conference Paper

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