Title
A systematic review on open educational games for programming learning and teaching
Date Issued
01 January 2020
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Cruzeiro do Sul University
Publisher(s)
Kassel University Press GmbH
Abstract
One of the main barriers for Educational Game (EG) to properly fulfill the specific pedagogical, cultural and technical requirements that are often unique to each situation is the difficulty of reusing and adapting them to different educational contexts. In this sense, open EGs could facilitate reuse and adaptation, once they follow the openness principles. This paper provides a systematic review of Open Educational Games (OEG) designed specifically for teaching computer programming and computational logic. It has been identified that most authors find the issue of reusing and adapting EGs following the openness philosophy as very important, but even them fail to use open tools in game development. We conclude that most articles recommend using component-based development, reuse and adaptation, but reuse still does not happen in a practical sense. Also, the amount of studies on EGs for teaching programming is low in the scientific literature, and most open EGs available on the Internet are not documented nor have some associated published paper. Thus, reuse and adaptation may even occur, but without scientific documentation and publication.
Start page
156
End page
172
Volume
15
Issue
9
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencias de la educación Informática y Ciencias de la Información
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85090452137
Source
International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning
ISSN of the container
18688799
DOI of the container
10.3991/ijet.v15i09.12437
Source funding
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Universiti Putra Malaysia
Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie
Sponsor(s)
This work was supported by Mackenzie Presbyterian University (UPM) under grant #509 as a full scholarship for the first author, we want to thank it.
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