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Pedagogical Mini-Games Integrated into Hybrid Course to Improve Understanding of Computer Programming: Skill Building Without the Coding Constraints

Pedagogical Mini-Games Integrated into Hybrid Course to Improve Understanding of Computer Programming: Skill Building Without the Coding Constraints

Walter Nuninger, Jean-Marie Châtelet
ISBN13: 9781522510345|ISBN10: 1522510346|EISBN13: 9781522510352
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-1034-5.ch008
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Nuninger, Walter, and Jean-Marie Châtelet. "Pedagogical Mini-Games Integrated into Hybrid Course to Improve Understanding of Computer Programming: Skill Building Without the Coding Constraints." Gamification-Based E-Learning Strategies for Computer Programming Education, edited by Ricardo Alexandre Peixoto de Queirós and Mário Teixeira Pinto, IGI Global, 2017, pp. 152-194. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-1034-5.ch008

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Nuninger, W. & Châtelet, J. (2017). Pedagogical Mini-Games Integrated into Hybrid Course to Improve Understanding of Computer Programming: Skill Building Without the Coding Constraints. In R. Alexandre Peixoto de Queirós & M. Pinto (Eds.), Gamification-Based E-Learning Strategies for Computer Programming Education (pp. 152-194). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-1034-5.ch008

Chicago

Nuninger, Walter, and Jean-Marie Châtelet. "Pedagogical Mini-Games Integrated into Hybrid Course to Improve Understanding of Computer Programming: Skill Building Without the Coding Constraints." In Gamification-Based E-Learning Strategies for Computer Programming Education, edited by Ricardo Alexandre Peixoto de Queirós and Mário Teixeira Pinto, 152-194. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2017. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-1034-5.ch008

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Abstract

To improve learning efficiency in Computer Programming courses, a voluntary decision was to fully integrate different learner-centered pedagogical devices. The result is the development of a set of pedagogical serious mini-Games (mGs) in synchronous time in the classroom for a decided scenario of the hybrid course. Supported by a Learning Management System, the innovation results in a common flexible and modular framework for mGs, taking into account a really short duration and higher constraints of the training. The expected outcome is to make future end users (who will not be IT developers) aware of the potential of the underlying transversal skills developed while building up universal algorithms, stressing functional analysis regardless of specific expertise required for a given coding. The challenge is to make their knowledge ownership easier, to prevent rejection, to incent involvement and collective intelligence and further Agile method adoption with a concern for quality.

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