IMPRESS: Improving Engagement in Software Engineering Courses Through Gamification

Tanja E.J. Vos; I. S.W.B. Prasetya; Gordon Fraser; Ivan Martinez-Ortiz; Ivan Perez-Colado; Rui Prada; José Rocha; António Rito Silva

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-35333-9_47

IMPRESS: Improving Engagement in Software Engineering Courses Through Gamification

Tanja E.J. Vos, I. S.W.B. Prasetya^*, Gordon Fraser, Ivan Martinez-Ortiz, Ivan Perez-Colado, Rui Prada, José Rocha, António Rito Silva

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Abstract

Software Engineering courses play an important role for preparing students with the right knowledge and attitude for software development in practice. The implication is far reaching, as the quality of the software that we use ultimately depends on the quality of the people that make them. Educating Software Engineering, however, is quite challenging, as the subject is not considered as most exciting by students, while teachers often have to deal with exploding number of students. The EU project IMPRESS seeks to explore the use of gamification in educating software engineering at the university level to improve students’ engagement and hence their appreciation for the taught subjects. This paper presents the project, its objectives, and its current progress.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Product-Focused Software Process Improvement - 20th International Conference, PROFES 2019, Proceedings
Editors	Xavier Franch, Tomi Männistö, Silverio Martínez-Fernández
Publisher	Springer
Pages	613-619
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Print)	9783030353322
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35333-9_47
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2019
Event	20th International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement, PROFES 2019 - Barcelona, Spain Duration: 27 Nov 2019 → 29 Nov 2019

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	11915 LNCS
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Conference

Conference	20th International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement, PROFES 2019
Country/Territory	Spain
City	Barcelona
Period	27/11/19 → 29/11/19

Funding

The IMPRESS project https://impress-project.eu/ is funded by EU Erasmus+ Programme, grant nr. 2017-1-NL01-KA203-035259. Duration: 2017–2020. Partners: Open Univ. (NL), Utrecht Univ. (NL), Univ. Complutense Madrid (SP), Univ. Passau (DE), INESC-ID Lisbon (PT). The project is also partially funded by the Fundacão para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) fund UID/CEC/50021/2019.

Keywords

Gamification in education
Gamification in software engineering education
Software engineering education

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Vos, T. E. J., Prasetya, I. S. W. B., Fraser, G., Martinez-Ortiz, I., Perez-Colado, I., Prada, R., Rocha, J., & Silva, A. R. (2019). IMPRESS: Improving Engagement in Software Engineering Courses Through Gamification. In X. Franch, T. Männistö, & S. Martínez-Fernández (Eds.), Product-Focused Software Process Improvement - 20th International Conference, PROFES 2019, Proceedings (pp. 613-619). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 11915 LNCS). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35333-9_47

Vos, Tanja E.J. ; Prasetya, I. S.W.B. ; Fraser, Gordon et al. / IMPRESS : Improving Engagement in Software Engineering Courses Through Gamification. Product-Focused Software Process Improvement - 20th International Conference, PROFES 2019, Proceedings. editor / Xavier Franch ; Tomi Männistö ; Silverio Martínez-Fernández. Springer, 2019. pp. 613-619 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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IMPRESS: Improving Engagement in Software Engineering Courses Through Gamification. / Vos, Tanja E.J.; Prasetya, I. S.W.B.; Fraser, Gordon et al.
Product-Focused Software Process Improvement - 20th International Conference, PROFES 2019, Proceedings. ed. / Xavier Franch; Tomi Männistö; Silverio Martínez-Fernández. Springer, 2019. p. 613-619 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 11915 LNCS).

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