Gamification of a software engineering course and a detailed analysis of the factors that lead to it's failure

2013 International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning, ICL 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 525-530

  Berkling, Kay ^a   Thomas, Christoph ^a  

^a BADEN WUERTTEMBERG COOPERATIVE STATE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

blended learning; e learning; education; gamification; motivation; software engineering

Indexed keywords

E-LEARNING; EDUCATION; MOTIVATION; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; TEACHING;

BACK-GROUND KNOWLEDGE; BLENDED LEARNING; GAMIFICATION; INDEPENDENT LEARNING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING COURSE; STUDENT ENGAGEMENT; STUDENT MOTIVATION; STUDENT SURVEYS;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84898665874     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICL.2013.6644642     Document Type: Conference Paper

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