Title
Pixel Python RPG: Repurposing an Entertainment Game to an Open Educational Resource for Computer Programming Fundamentals
Date Issued
01 January 2021
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference presentation
Author(s)
Silva J.P.D.
Pimentel P.H.G.
Pimentel L.G.
Mackenzie Presbyterian University
Publisher(s)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Abstract
Undergraduate students from courses related to Computer Programming often face barriers such as insufficient prerequisites for difficult subjects and lack of motivation. Completing abstract tasks such as logical reasoning, algorithm design, and programming is often more difficult than usual. On the other hand, these young students are very attracted to video games, especially in social distance protocols as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and can spend many hours playing video games. Thus, educators can try to use video games as educational tools in an attempt to motivate and engage the study in a more playful way and closer to the interactivity of games that most students are already used to. In this sense, the purpose of this article is to present the reuse of a conventional open source 2D Point Click game, aimed at entertainment, in an educational RPG game to teach the fundamentals of Computer Programming that can be used on a Web-based platform and incorporated into parts of the Emergency Remote Education classes. An alpha version of the educational game was delivered, in Portuguese, and a subjective experiment was carried out with a sample of 14 IT students and the results of the article show that the reuse of the game was made directly and can be redistributed as an open educational resource form.
Start page
326
End page
333
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencias de la educación
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85127095418
ISBN
9781665423588
Source
Proceedings - 2021 16th Latin American Conference on Learning Technologies, LACLO 2021
Resource of which it is part
Proceedings - 2021 16th Latin American Conference on Learning Technologies, LACLO 2021
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