FGPE++: Gamified Programming Learning at Scale

Project Reference: 2023-1-PL01-KA220-HED-000164696

Objectives

The proposed project aims at increasing the educational potential of the FGPE framework by enhancing its usability for both students and teachers, by: (1) enabling the automatic generation of gamified programming exercises, (2) enabling the effective use of the FGPE programming learning environment on mobile devices which are, for some period, disconnected from the Internet, (3) developing a full-fledged open online course for a popular programming language.

Activities

The proposed project consists in four work packages: WP1 (Project Management), WP2 (development of the Programming Exercise Gamifizer and its promotion), WP3 (development of the Client-side Evaluation Engine and its promotion), and WP4 (development of the FGPE-supported LMS-compliant gamified programming course and its promotion).

Impact

The proposed project will produce the following results:

1) Programming Exercise Gamifizer - an open-source software, 2) Client-side Evaluation Engine - an open-source software, 3) a full-fledged FGPE-supported and LMS-compliant open gamified course for a popular programming language - an open educational material. The project outcomes will include: reducing the requirements in skills for gamifying programming courses and improving the usability of the FGPE platform.

Partners

Uniwersytet Szczeciński (Poland)
University of Szczecin, founded in 1985, is the biggest public higher education institution in north-west Poland. It employs over 300 professors, almost 500 adjuncts and over 300 research assistants. It educates nearly twelve thousand students, on both full and part-time studies, on ten faculties. There are many foreign students studying at the University.

INESC TEC (Portugal)
INESC TEC is a private non-profit research institution, dedicated to scientific research and technological development, technology transfer, advanced consulting and training, and pre-incubation of new technology-based companies.

Universita Degli Studi Di Napoli Parthenope (Italy)
The University of Naples Parthenope was established in 1919, when – upon request of Vice Admiral Leonardi Cattolica, founder of the University – an institute of higher education, the Royal Naval Institute, was promoted with the aim to study all aspects of oceans and seas, not only as far as the marine life is concerned but also as a system of exchange.

Kaunas University of Technology (Lithuania)
Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) is a public research university located in Kaunas, Lithuania, and one of the largest and oldest technological university in Baltics, ranked: second in Lithuania and 751+ in the world by QS World University Ranking.

Aalborg Universitet (Denmark)
Aalborg University (AAU) is a renowned university in Denmark, founded in 1974. Education and research within the fields of natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, and technical and health sciences are offered at AAU. The university awards Bachelors, Master’s, Ph.D. and Doctoral degrees in various fields within the different programmes, institutes, and centres. Approximately 20,729 students are enrolled at AAU, 13% of whom are international students from European countries, the Americas, Oceania, Asia, and Africa.

Project Reference: 2023-1-PL01-KA220-HED-000164696