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LEARN Board Game: A game for teaching Software Architecture created through Design Science Research

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Tamires A. S. Sousa,

Anna B. S. MarquesAuthors Info & Claims

SBES '20: Proceedings of the XXXIV Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering

Pages 834 - 843

https://doi.org/10.1145/3422392.3422494

Published: 21 December 2020 Publication History

Abstract

Software Architecture specifies the set of decisions about the software components, their external properties and their relationships with other elements. These activities have a direct impact on the software quality, requiring architects and developers to know and to apply appropriately the architectural concepts and standards for their decision making involving the Software Architecture. Due to this, we identified a need for designing an approach that would dynamize the teaching and learning process in Software Architecture. Educational games are an alternative for teaching in several Computing areas. Therefore, this research proposes the creation and application of LEARN (LEarning software ARchitecture fundameNtals) board game, a game for teaching architectural concepts and standards in an interactive way. We created the game using the Design Science Research methodology. We evaluated the game through a case study with undergraduate students in Software Engineering, attending the Software Architecture discipline. We used a questionnaire based on the MEEGA+ model for data collection. The results show that LEARN board game has a good usability and provided a good learning experience for the students. The LEARN new version is available for adoption in Software Architecture learning.

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Hemmert FMeyer KBrandies TEbeling LFiebig MHorst JKatsnelson AKupferschmidt LLudwig DMartins CPark SRöhl JRohden TSiepen C(2021)Perspectives in Play: Printable Board Games that Teach about Foreign PolicyExtended Abstracts of the 2021 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play10.1145/3450337.3483459(287-293)Online publication date: 15-Oct-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3450337.3483459

Index Terms

LEARN Board Game: A game for teaching Software Architecture created through Design Science Research
1. Applied computing
  1. Education
    1. Collaborative learning
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software organization and properties
    1. Software system structures
      1. Software architectures

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SBES '20: Proceedings of the XXXIV Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering

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DOI:10.1145/3422392

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Hemmert FMeyer KBrandies TEbeling LFiebig MHorst JKatsnelson AKupferschmidt LLudwig DMartins CPark SRöhl JRohden TSiepen C(2021)Perspectives in Play: Printable Board Games that Teach about Foreign PolicyExtended Abstracts of the 2021 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play10.1145/3450337.3483459(287-293)Online publication date: 15-Oct-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3450337.3483459

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