Pass the Ball: Game-Based Learning of Software Design

Based on our experience using active learning methods to teach object-oriented software design we propose a game-based approach to take the classroom experience into a virtual environment. The different pedagogical approaches that our active method supports, have motivated us to tailor an architecture that supports the creation of different variations of role-play environments, ranging from open-ended trial and error approaches to highly constrained settings where students can not get very far from the solution. We also describe a prototype that instantiates this architecture called ViRPlay3D2. Key words: Game-based learning, object-oriented design, role-play

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: IWEC
• Authors: Guillermo Jiménez-Díaz, Mercedes Gómez-Albarrán, Pedro A. González-Calero
• Keywords: Active Learning Methods, Applied Computing, Different Pedagogical Approaches, IWEC 2007, Object-oriented Software Design