Software Engineers at Play

Abstract

Active learning helps students to retain the course material and apply it to the real world when needed. Involving games in teaching has gained much attention over the past few years. Educational games have always helped students by promoting participation and active learning. It has helped them by motivating and bringing out the best ideas in them in order to understand a skill or a concept. It is an emerging pedagogy. This study discusses how games can help classroom teaching. Also, how the concepts that are taught through games can be used to solve real world problems. Agile software development has been taught to graduate students in the Software Engineering program using games. The games used in this study are the ones which are also used in the software industry to teach employees about Agile framework. The results of the study and student feedbacks are presented in this paper.