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SIGCSE
2009
ACM
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14 years 5 months ago
Engaging students through mobile game development
This paper describes using mobile game development as a motivational tool to engage students early in the curriculum. Mobile devices have become an integral part of everyday lives...
Stan Kurkovsky
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
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14 years 5 months ago
Engagement: gaming throughout the curriculum
This paper considers how gaming has been infused into the computing curriculum of institutions in the United States. To increase motivation of students and improve retention, many...
Briana B. Morrison, Jon A. Preston
ICALT
2010
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
Increasing Students In-Class Engagement through Public Commenting: An Exploratory Study
Student engagement is a pervasive and persistent goal for educators. In previous work we have reported that activities like public real-time commenting on videos can enhance studen...
Honglu Du, Hao Jiang, Mary Beth Rosson, John M. Ca...
SIGCSE
2008
ACM
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13 years 4 months ago
Improving retention and graduate recruitment through immersive research experiences for undergraduates
Research experiences for undergraduates are considered an effective means for increasing student retention and encouraging undergraduate students to continue on to graduate school...
Teresa A. Dahlberg, Tiffany Barnes, Audrey Rorrer,...
ITICSE
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Teaching software engineering through game design
Many projects currently used in Software Engineering curricula lack both the “fun factor” needed to engage students, as well as the practical realism of engineering projects t...
Kajal T. Claypool, Mark Claypool