Students perceptions of using educational games to learn introductory programming

Educational computer games studies experienced rapid growth due to the belief that games can offer various learning benefits being highly popular among younger generations. Programming is considered a challenging subject by students and teachers, consequently students feel less motivated to learn it...

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Main Authors: Ibrahim, Roslina, Che Mohd Yusoff, Rasimah, Mohamed@Omar, Hasiah, Jaafar, Azizah
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Published: Canadian Center of Science and Education 2011
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spelling my.utm.123712011-05-26T04:37:18Z http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/12371/ Students perceptions of using educational games to learn introductory programming Ibrahim, Roslina Che Mohd Yusoff, Rasimah Mohamed@Omar, Hasiah Jaafar, Azizah L Education (General) Educational computer games studies experienced rapid growth due to the belief that games can offer various learning benefits being highly popular among younger generations. Programming is considered a challenging subject by students and teachers, consequently students feel less motivated to learn it. It is important to know how educational games can help to enhance our student’s motivation and learning perceptions towards Programming. This paper discusses the authors’ pilot study of undergraduate students’ perceptions towards using educational games as their learning medium using five constructs: motivation, attitudes, cognitive development, interface and expectation with 24 items. The findings indicated that most students had encouraging positive attitudes and were more motivated to learn Programming using games compared to conventional methods. The findings are hopefully will help to enrich knowledge in understanding students’ perceptions regarding educational games for learning, particularly in the Malaysian context. Canadian Center of Science and Education 2011 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/12371/1/journal_ccse.pdf Ibrahim, Roslina and Che Mohd Yusoff, Rasimah and Mohamed@Omar, Hasiah and Jaafar, Azizah (2011) Students perceptions of using educational games to learn introductory programming. Computer and Information Science, 4 (1). ISSN 1913-8989 http://www.ccsenet.org/cis
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Ibrahim, Roslina
Che Mohd Yusoff, Rasimah
Mohamed@Omar, Hasiah
Jaafar, Azizah
Students perceptions of using educational games to learn introductory programming
description Educational computer games studies experienced rapid growth due to the belief that games can offer various learning benefits being highly popular among younger generations. Programming is considered a challenging subject by students and teachers, consequently students feel less motivated to learn it. It is important to know how educational games can help to enhance our student’s motivation and learning perceptions towards Programming. This paper discusses the authors’ pilot study of undergraduate students’ perceptions towards using educational games as their learning medium using five constructs: motivation, attitudes, cognitive development, interface and expectation with 24 items. The findings indicated that most students had encouraging positive attitudes and were more motivated to learn Programming using games compared to conventional methods. The findings are hopefully will help to enrich knowledge in understanding students’ perceptions regarding educational games for learning, particularly in the Malaysian context.
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author Ibrahim, Roslina
Che Mohd Yusoff, Rasimah
Mohamed@Omar, Hasiah
Jaafar, Azizah
author_facet Ibrahim, Roslina
Che Mohd Yusoff, Rasimah
Mohamed@Omar, Hasiah
Jaafar, Azizah
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title Students perceptions of using educational games to learn introductory programming
title_short Students perceptions of using educational games to learn introductory programming
title_full Students perceptions of using educational games to learn introductory programming
title_fullStr Students perceptions of using educational games to learn introductory programming
title_full_unstemmed Students perceptions of using educational games to learn introductory programming
title_sort students perceptions of using educational games to learn introductory programming
publisher Canadian Center of Science and Education
publishDate 2011
url http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/12371/1/journal_ccse.pdf
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