Desarrollando competencias personales y habilidades sociales en ingeniería informática mediante el uso de juegos serios

Abstract

The development of personal and social skills of information technology students is a relevant task that can promote the employability of future computing professionals. In order to promote the importance of these skills and help students in their development and improvement, a workshop was organized based on serious games. Two serious games were applied to develop soft skills related to teamwork, innovation, and improvement of the work process. The MEEGA+ model for the evaluation of serious games was used in order to evaluate the educational effectiveness of the serious games, in terms of the player's experience and perceived learning of the serious games. Partici- pants involved in the workshop allowed achieving positive results related to the conducted experience. Our main purpose in this article is to promote the integration of serious games as training tools to encourage the development and improvement of cross-curricular and professional competencies, as well as describing and evaluating the experience conducted with computing students.