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One block on top of the other: using minetest to teach Scrum

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Jan-Philipp Steghöfer,

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ICSE-SEET '22: Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE 44th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering Education and Training

Pages 176 - 186

https://doi.org/10.1145/3510456.3514157

Published: 17 October 2022 Publication History

Abstract

Teaching Scrum using Lego has been an established teaching technique for years. However, the COVID-19 pandemic forced teachers all over the globe to rethink this valuable teaching tool. In this experience report, we show how we transferred our version of a Lego Scrum workshop into the world of Minetest, an open-source variant of Minecraft. We detail our reasoning, the concrete technical and pedagogical challenges, as well as experiences and reflections from the students, us as teachers, our peers, and theoretical frameworks. Finally, we share our materials to enable other teachers to use this new tool.

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Brandl LSchrader A(2024)Serious Games in Higher Education in the Transforming Process to Education 4.0—Systematized ReviewEducation Sciences10.3390/educsci1403028114:3(281)Online publication date: 7-Mar-2024
https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci14030281
Arnedo-Moreno JCooper KLin D(2024)Emerging Advanced Technologies for Game EngineeringACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes10.1145/3672089.367210149:3(37-41)Online publication date: 18-Jul-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3672089.3672101
Bucchiarone ACooper KLin DSmith AWanick V(2023)Fostering Collaboration and Advancing Research in Software Engineering and Game Development for Serious ContextsACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes10.1145/3617946.361795548:4(46-50)Online publication date: 17-Oct-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3617946.3617955

Index Terms

One block on top of the other: using minetest to teach Scrum
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing education
      1. Adult education
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software development process management
      1. Software development methods
        Agile software development

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ICSE-SEET '22: Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE 44th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering Education and Training

May 2022

292 pages

ISBN:9781450392259

DOI:10.1145/3510456

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Brandl LSchrader A(2024)Serious Games in Higher Education in the Transforming Process to Education 4.0—Systematized ReviewEducation Sciences10.3390/educsci1403028114:3(281)Online publication date: 7-Mar-2024
https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci14030281
Arnedo-Moreno JCooper KLin D(2024)Emerging Advanced Technologies for Game EngineeringACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes10.1145/3672089.367210149:3(37-41)Online publication date: 18-Jul-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3672089.3672101
Bucchiarone ACooper KLin DSmith AWanick V(2023)Fostering Collaboration and Advancing Research in Software Engineering and Game Development for Serious ContextsACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes10.1145/3617946.361795548:4(46-50)Online publication date: 17-Oct-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3617946.3617955

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