SCHEDULE: NOV 16-22, 2013
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On the Gamification of a Graduate Course on Cloud Computing
SESSION: Research Poster Reception
EVENT TYPE: Posters, Electronic Posters, and Education Posters
TIME: 5:15PM - 7:00PM
AUTHOR(S):Alexandru Iosup, Dick Epema
ROOM:Mile High Pre-Function
ABSTRACT:
Keeping diverse groups of students motivated and engaged in the curriculum is a major challenge of today's technical universities, especially in Europe.
Gamification, defined loosely as the use of social gaming elements to activate students in learning activities, can help with addressing this challenge. This poster introduces gamification as a teaching technique, and discusses its application in the area of distributed HPC education through a graduate course at TU Delft. We discuss the goal and topics of the course; and the gamification mechanics, dynamics, and content-related elements. Over the past two years, we have seen an accumulation of evidence that gamified courses can lead to a high ratio of students who pass after the first attempt, and that gamification can be a promising technique.
Chair/Author Details:
Alexandru Iosup - Delft University of Technology
Dick Epema - Delft University of Technology
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