LogEasy++: A customizable teaching and learning tool using gamification

• Kelly Suenny M. Correia Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Maranhão (IFMA)
• Karla Donato Fook Technological Institute of Aeronautics (ITA)
• Eveline de Jesus V. Sá Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Maranhão (IFMA)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/cbie.sbie.2018.575

Abstract

This paper presents a customizable teaching and learning tool called LogEasy++, which was developed as a scope expansion of an existing gamified mobile app designed to teach Propositional Logic, called LogEasy. The objective behind the development of LogEasy++ was to produce a support infrastructure for the existing application wich allows its expansion through the customization of the contents to be taught in the app. In order to achieve that, a set of web services and other web develpment technologies were applied.

Keywords: gamification, LogEasy , teaching of propositional logic, mobile applications, web services

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