Gaming4Coding - using videogames to promote coding skills in the younger population

We applied for this project after discussions upon programming education as problematic learning. More than many other school subjects programming education needs new didactic methods. In a time w...

Very much the same as described in the answer right above: Objective 1. To make a contribution to make computer science and programming education more enjoyable to the secondary school audience. Objective 2. To create the girl inclusive game design that research studies have highlighted during the last two decades. Some important design aspects here are game graphics, sound, a welcoming and pedagogical start level, a non-violent gameplay, instant feedback, custmasation opportunities and collaboration opportunities. Objective 3. To develop and test a video game that also involves a game-based learning analytics part that does not disturb the actual gaming and learning process. Where all three objectives are hard to achieve by one of the involved partners alone, but feasible in a well-planned project collaboration. Another objective has been to deliver a game, a teacher guide, research articles and a web portal that should remain after the end of the project. Most deliveries from the project can be downloaded via the Gaming4Coding web portal on: https://gaming4coding.eduproject.eu/ More deliveries will be uploaded later and the link to the web portal will be continuously spread to teachers, learners and other interested citizens.

The concrete results are: Firstly, the same as specified in the application: 1. An educational game for learning programming, however not completely tested and bug free 2. To a compatible module for game-based learning analytics 3. A teacher and learner guide specifying how the Code Quest game can be integrated in formal or non-formal education 4. A public accessible web portal with links to all the project deliveries. The game is not tested and evaluated as completely as intended, which we apologise for. On the other hand, we have tried to compensate for the delayed game development by a rich evaluation of the existing prototype. We think that our research publications can be seen as an added value that can support the future development of similar educational games and games with built-in learning analytics: Published and public Mozelius, P., & Humble, N. (2023). Educational Game Design for Girls and Boys: Towards an Inclusive Conceptual Model for Learning Programming. EAI Endorsed Transactions on Creative Technologies, 10. Mozelius, P., Pechuel, R., Fernández-Manjón, B., Kreuzberg, T., Humble, N., & Sällvin, L. (2023). Development of an Enjoyable Educational Game on Fundamental Programming: Designing for Inclusion and Learning Analytics. In Proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Game-Based Learning: ECGBL 2023. Academic Conferences and publishing limited. Sällvin, L., Mozelius, P., & Humble, N. (2023). 3 Games 4 Coding–Do girls feel welcome?. In INTED2023 In Proceedings of the 17th annual International Technology, Education and Development Conference (pp. 4612-4620). IATED. Mozelius, P., & Humble, N. (2022). Design Factors for an Educational Game where Girls and Boys Play Together to Learn Fundamental Programming. In International Conference on ArtsIT, Interactivity and Game Creation (pp. 134-148). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. Mozelius, P., Humble, N., Sällvin, L., Öberg, L. M., Pechuel, R., & Fernández-Manjón, B. (2022). How to get the girls Gaming: A Literature Study on Inclusive Design. In 16th European Conference on Game Based Learning (ECGBL 2022). Academic Conferences International Limited. To be published during 2024 Lisa Sällvin, Peter Mozelius, Niklas Humble, Antonio Calvo-Morata, Baltasar Fernández-Manjón, Rasmus Pechuel & Tim Kreuzberg . (2024). On design of inclusive and enjoyable educational games - The Gaming4Coding concept. In INTED2024 In Proceedings of the 18th annual International Technology, Education and Development Conference . IATED. Antonio Calvo-Morata, Niklas Humble, Peter Mozelius, Rasmus Pechuel & Baltasar Fernández-Manjón (2024).Games for coding to attract new students to STEM, In Proceedings of Educon 2024