FGPE Gamification Service: A GraphQL Service to Gamify Online Education

Paiva, José Carlos; Haraszczuk, Alicja; Queirós, Ricardo; Leal, José Paulo; Swacha, Jakub; Kosta, Sokol

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-72654-6_46

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“…This work describes how the software ecosystem developed within the FGPE project [8] can be used to provide and manage gamified computer programming courses. While our previous work presented the formats needed to convey programming exercise [31] and gamification layer [32] definitions, and the gamification service [33], handling students' submissions, triggering gamification rules, and updating the game state, in this paper, we focus on the two remaining key elements of the ecosystem: FGPE AuthorKit and FGPE PLE. The first can be used to prepare programming exercise sets and relevant gamification rules, and the other to provide the students with the ability to play with gamified exercises and allow the teachers to set up challenges for the students and follow their progress.…”

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“…• Gamified programming exercises-the educational contents represented using two formats, one for describing programming exercises-YAPExIL [31]-and another for gamification layers-GEdIL [32], • FGPE Gamification Service [33], which processes gamification rules and keeps the game state, • Mooshak 2.0 [34], the sandbox for execution of the programs submitted by students and automatically assessing their correctness, • FGPE Programming Learning Environment (PLE) [35], providing the user interface for both students (to interact with gamified programming exercises, edit, and test their solutions) and teachers (to arrange exercise sets for their students and follow the students' progress with the exercises). In the following two sections, we shall present the two components that are essential for managing the gamified programming courses with the FGPE platform, namely AuthorKit and PLE.…”

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“…The FGPE Gamification Service [33] is a GraphQL service designed to consume a gamification layer defined using GEdIL, and transform it into a game, played by students. Hence, the service has complete support for various rewarding mechanisms such as points, badges, coupons, virtual items, leaderboards, locked and secret content, and different activity modes (e.g., time-bomb and speedup).…”

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“…It was developed in ReactJS-"a JavaScript library for building user interfaces" [38]. It is based on the Apollo Client, a community-driven effort to build an easy-to-understand, flexible, and powerful GraphQL client, to manage and consume remote data from the FGPE Gamification Service [33] without worrying about infrastructure code for networking and caching. It also makes use of Keycloak [39], an open-source identity and access management solution providing features such as centralized user management, various authentication mechanisms, single sign-on and identity brokering, and social login.…”

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E-learning tools are gaining increasing relevance as facilitators in the task of learning how to program. This is mainly a result of the pandemic situation and consequent lockdown in several countries, which forced distance learning. Instant and relevant feedback to students, particularly if coupled with gamification, plays a pivotal role in this process and has already been demonstrated as an effective solution in this regard. However, teachers still struggle with the lack of tools that can adequately support the creation and management of online gamified programming courses. Until now, there was no software platform that would be simultaneously open-source and general-purpose (i.e., not integrated with a specific course on a specific programming language) while featuring a meaningful selection of gamification components. Such a solution has been developed as a part of the Framework for Gamified Programming Education (FGPE) project. In this paper, we present its two front-end components: FGPE AuthorKit and FGPE PLE, explain how they can be used by teachers to prepare and manage gamified programming courses, and report the results of the usability evaluation by the teachers using the platform in their classes.

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The Gamification of E-learning Environments for Learning Programming

Garcia Villegas,

Lemos Aguero

2023

JOIV : Int. J. Inform. Visualization

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Gamification is the most active methodology utilized in the E-learning environment for teaching-learning in computing; however, this does not restrict its use in other areas of knowledge. Gamification combines elements of play and its design techniques in a non-ludic context, achieving a motivation factor for the students. This systematic study aimed to collect and synthesize scientific evidence from the gamification field for learning programming through the E-learning environment. In order to do this, a systematic literature review was done, following the guidelines proposed by Petersen, which propose the definition of questions, search strategies, inclusion/exclusion criteria, and characterization. As a result of this process, eighty-one works were completely reviewed, analyzed, and categorized. The results revealed favorable learning among the students, the most used platforms and gamification elements, the most used languages and focuses of programming, and the education level, where gamification is most used to learn to program in an E-learning environment. These findings evidenced that gamification is a good active strategy for introducing beginning students to programming through an E-learning environment. Within this context, Learning programming through the use of gamification is a topic that is growing and taking force, and after what occurred during the pandemic, it is projected that there will continue to be more students who are focused on understanding its implementation and the impact it has on the different levels of education and the areas of knowledge.

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Gamification of business process modeling education: an experimental analysis

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Coppola,

Ardito

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Softw Syst Model

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Gamification, the practice of using game elements in non-recreational contexts to increase user participation and interest, has been applied more and more throughout the years in software engineering. Business process modeling is a skill considered fundamental for software engineers, with Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) being one of the most commonly used notations for this discipline. BPMN modeling is present in different curricula in specific Master’s Degree courses related to software engineering but is usually seen by students as an unappealing or uninteresting activity. Gamification could potentially solve this issue, though there have been no relevant attempts in research yet. This paper aims at collecting preliminary insights on how gamification affects students’ motivation in performing BPMN modeling tasks and—as a consequence—their productivity and learning outcomes. A web application for modeling BPMN diagrams augmented with gamification mechanics such as feedback, rewards, progression, and penalization has been compared with a non-gamified version that provides more limited feedback in an experiment involving 200 students. The diagrams modeled by the students are collected and analyzed after the experiment. Students’ opinions are gathered using a post-experiment questionnaire. Statistical analysis showed that gamification leads students to check more often for their solutions’ correctness, increasing the semantic correctness of their diagrams, thus showing that it can improve students’ modeling skills. The results, however, are mixed and require additional experiments in the future to fine-tune the tool for actual classroom use.

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FGPE Gamification Service: A GraphQL Service to Gamify Online Education

Cited by 6 publications

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Managing Gamified Programming Courses with the FGPE Platform

Managing Gamified Programming Courses with the FGPE Platform

The Gamification of E-learning Environments for Learning Programming

Gamification of business process modeling education: an experimental analysis

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