Pump It up! – Conception of a Serious Game Applying in Computer Science

Abstract

Student attrition in mechanical engineering at German universities currently lies at about 40 %. A lacking sense of practical relevance for a future career are often named as reasons to quit studies. Over the past decade online games have become very popular for educational purposes. The approach of game-based learning, however, has proven to be suitable to motivate students. At RWTH Aachen University engineering students are imparted the relevance of computer science for their field through an e-learning environment including the online game Pump it up! The paper describes the conception and game design of the game including didactical and technical requirements related to it.

Virtual Environments in Higher Education – Immersion as a Key Construct for Learning 4.0

“…Especially in technologically oriented study fields, the practical experience of education content is often conducted in real laboratory experiments, which do not meet the requirements of Industry 4.0. The demand of having practical experiences in such study fields is increasing due to the ongoing pro-1 Digital Natives are referred to persons who have grown up with modern technology like computers, internet and mobile phones [7, p. 50 [10].…”