The Teacher's Role in Gamification in Software Engineering at Universities (Field Report) - or how geeks can be inspired to sing

Martine Herpers
2015 International Conference on Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination  
New educational methods require new competences from university teachers. In a non-technical seminar with included SE aspects for bachelor computer science student's self-determined learning and gamification could improve student's engagement significantly. Both methods seem to be a good candidates for technical courses in software engineering, too. The article highlights the new role and competences required for university teachers using gamification. 1 A good explanation of PBL can be found
more » ... Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem-based_learning 2 Gamification is used since several years in industry to motivate employees. A list of gamification projects can be found at [Bol12].
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