Using Game Development to Teach Software Architecture

Using XNA to Teach Software Architecture

This paper describes a case study of how a game project using the XNA Game Studio was implemented in a software architecture course. In previous years, a main part of the software architecture course was a software development project where the students were to design the software architecture and implement a robot controller in Java. The robot controller was chosen for the project, as there ex...

Ender’s Game: Using Science Fiction to Teach Child Development

Using the Internet to Teach Software Engineering

An internet, browser-based, computer-supported learning system was designed and built by the MSIS Department to serve primarily as an assessment vehicle for business students. Now in its second year of operation it has migrated across computer platforms and been completely redesigned to become a university resource. Hundreds of students use CSL daily. This paper will outline the development of ...

Strategies to Teach Game Development Across Age Groups

The process of game development can be used as a highly motivating learning experience geared to the teaching and learning of a variety of skills in students of varying ages. This article presents a description of a conceptual framework for teaching and learning based on game creation, including pedagogical foundations, a model of instruction for game development, age-related issues relative to...

Using game format to teach psychopharmacology to medical students.

BACKGROUND Most psychiatric programs provide lectures on basic principles of psychopharmacology. Yet, this traditional approach has been criticized due to excessive information and passive transfer of expert knowledge. An alternative teaching method is the use of "academic games." AIMS To investigate medical students' acquisition of knowledge on psychopharmacology, and their perception of a g...