Paper Info
Title
The Pedagogical Potential of Game Jams.
Abstract
In this paper the authors explore the implications and pedagogical potential of game jams. While game jams have been noted for enhancing teamwork, communication, and project management skill-sets, in this paper the authors explore the potential educational benefits of Game Jams. Through an analysis of the academic results of the participants of a game jam site as compared to the control group of non-jam participants, the authors conclude that participation in game jams appear to have a positive impact on students' academic performance in many computing classes. The analysis includes a detailed comparison of over 70,000 student performance measures in general computing courses, focused/higher-level computer science courses, game design and development courses, software engineering courses, and mathematics courses. The results from this study may be used by other academic organizations to provide support for hosting game jam activities.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1145/3241815.3241862
SIGITE
Keywords
Field
DocType
Game Jam,Learning,Pedagogy,Hackathon,Computing Education,Experiential Learning
Experiential learning,Teamwork,Game jam,Computer science,Knowledge management,Game design,Mathematics education,Project management
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-5954-2
0
0.34
References 
Authors
6
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Allan Fowler182.31
Xuelei Sherry Ni201.35
Jon A. Preston37111.31