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T1 Teaching Computer Skills while Engaging Students: A Gamified Approach to Word Processing
A1 Orio, Nicola
A1 Micheletti, Andrea
A1 Zilio, Daniel
K1 Gamification
K1 student engagement
K1 computer skills
AB Learning computer skills while attending classes atthe School of Humanities of the University of Padua can be littleengaging. Low interest on the subject is paired by low resourcesby the School. Yet, effective computer skills are increasinglyimportant in a society were everyone knows how to use asmartphone but might get lost while using a complex software.In this paper we address the problem of motivating studentsto acquire computer skills in word processing by organizing aseries of activities based on a gamification approach. A suiteof automatic tools give the students control of their learningprogressions, provide immediate feedback to their activities, andengage them by modulating the difficulty of the proposed steps.Initial results with a group of History undergraduate studentsare presented, together with a proposal for a novel approach thatis under test.
PB Universidad de La Laguna
SN 978-84-697-3570-1
YR 2017
FD 2017
LK http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/4779
UL http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/4779
LA en
DS Repositorio institucional de la Universidad de La Laguna
RD 25-abr-2024