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DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:ABSTRACT: Keeping diverse groups of students motivated and engaged in the curriculum is a major challenge of today's technical universities, especially in Europe.=0AGamification, defined loosely as the use of social gaming elements to activate students in learning activities, can help with addressing this challenge. This poster introduces gamification as a teaching technique, and discusses its  application in the area of distributed HPC education through a graduate course at TU Delft. We discuss the goal and topics of the course; and the gamification mechanics, dynamics, and content-related elements. Over the past two years, we have seen an accumulation of evidence that gamified courses can lead to a high ratio of students who pass after the first attempt, and that gamification can be a promising technique.
SUMMARY:On the Gamification of a Graduate Course on Cloud Computing
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