All Outputs (5)

Transforming programming education: The effectiveness of motivational scenario-based design in serious games (2025)
Journal Article

Programming education faces persistent challenges, particularly in sustaining learner engagement and motivation while teaching abstract concepts like algorithms, data structures, and problem-solving skills. Traditional methods, focused heavily on the... Read More about Transforming programming education: The effectiveness of motivational scenario-based design in serious games.

Obmaaq: Ontology-based model for automated assessment of short-answer questions (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Automated scoring of short answers is becoming increasingly important nowadays, as more classes are taking place online due to COVID-19 outbreaks. Over the past 50 years, different techniques have been applied to develop ways of assessing short answe... Read More about Obmaaq: Ontology-based model for automated assessment of short-answer questions.

Personalised learning through context-based adaptation in the serious games with gating mechanism (2023)
Journal Article

When the traditional "one size fits all" approach is used in designing educational games, the game context is usually arranged in a fixed sequence. However, the designated content may not effectively support the diversity of players. The player's abi... Read More about Personalised learning through context-based adaptation in the serious games with gating mechanism.

Climbing up the leaderboard: An empirical study of applying gamification techniques to a computer programming class (2016)
Journal Article

Conventional taught learning practices often experience difficulties in keeping students motivated and engaged. Video games, however, are very successful at sustaining high levels of motivation and engagement through a set of tasks for hours without... Read More about Climbing up the leaderboard: An empirical study of applying gamification techniques to a computer programming class.

From hiscore to high marks: Empirical study of teaching programming through gamification (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Unlike conventional taught learning, video games are very successful at keeping players constantly motivated and engaged on a set of tasks for many hours without apparent loss of focus. Additionally, when playing, gamers solve complex problems withou... Read More about From hiscore to high marks: Empirical study of teaching programming through gamification.