The Pupils' Academy of Serious Gaming: Strengthening Study Skills

Authors

  • Matthias Christoph Utesch Staatliche Fachober- und Berufsoberschule Technik München Bergsonstraße 109 81245 München Germany Technische Universität München Faculty of Informatics Institute for Information Systems Boltzmannstr. 3 85748 Garching Germany

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3991/ijep.v5i3.4660

Keywords:

business game, didactic framework, strengthen study skills, vocational schools

Abstract


The Pupils' Academy of Serious Gaming at the ‘Technische Universität München’ TUM is a reliable instrument to successfully strengthen the study skills of students from the upper vocational schools of Bavaria. Based on the pedagogy of a practical application of sciences, we enable the participants to change their learning perspective from ‘school student’ to ‘university student’: For two days they take part in a regular course at TUM based on our in-house business game Go4C. The goal is to learn how to self-assess and develop important aspects of their personal study skills. This paper presents the Pupils´ Academy and Go4C as a tool to strengthen the study skills at an early stage before leaving school.

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Published

2015-08-02

How to Cite

Utesch, M. C. (2015). The Pupils’ Academy of Serious Gaming: Strengthening Study Skills. International Journal of Engineering Pedagogy (iJEP), 5(3), pp. 25–33. https://doi.org/10.3991/ijep.v5i3.4660

Issue

Vol. 5 No. 3 (2015)

Section

Papers