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SIGCSE
2008
ACM
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13 years 4 months ago
Broadening participation through scalable game design
Game development is quickly gaining popularity in introductory programming courses. Motivational and educational aspects of game development are hard to balance and often sacrific...
Alexander Repenning, Andri Ioannidou
CHI
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Let's play chinese characters: mobile learning approaches via culturally inspired group games
In many developing countries such as India and China, low educational levels often hinder economic empowerment. In this paper, we argue that mobile learning games can play an impo...
Feng Tian, Fei Lv, Jingtao Wang, Hongan Wang, Wenc...
HCI
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Antecedents of Attributions in an Educational Game for Social Learning: Who's to Blame?
Games are increasingly being used as educational tools, in part because they are presumed to enhance student motivation. We look at student motivation in games from the viewpoint o...
Amy Ogan, Vincent Aleven, Julia Kim, Christopher J...
AIS
2006
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Making games for social change
This paper provides an overview of creating games for change from within an academic context, focusing specifically on the development of educational computer games for middle scho...
Mary Flanagan
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
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14 years 5 months ago
Breadth-last technical electives: integrating the CS core via computer games and mobile robotics
In this paper, we introduce the concept of breadth-last technical elective courses, which are designed to assist undergraduate CS students in integrating their entire core curricu...
William W. White, Jerry B. Weinberg