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Nergiz Ercil Cagiltay
Researcher at Atılım University
Publications - 85
Citations - 1298
Nergiz Ercil Cagiltay is an academic researcher from Atılım University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Remote laboratory & Computer science. The author has an hindex of 16, co-authored 76 publications receiving 897 citations.
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The effect of competition on learning in games
TL;DR: The results of this study show that when a competition environment is created in a serious game, motivation and post-test scores of learners improve significantly and are expected to guide the serious game designers for improving the potential benefits of serious games.
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Improving programming skills in engineering education through problem-based game projects with Scratch
TL;DR: By slightly improving the course curriculum through real-life game development projects in the Scratch environment, students’ performance on the graduation projects improved significantly, showing technologies that can potentially help learners to perform better in the introduction to programming course, in turn affecting their performances in projects.
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Teaching Software Engineering by Means of Computer-Game Development: Challenges and Opportunities.
TL;DR: Results of this study show that the students who had taken the computer game-development course became more successful in the senior-project course than theStudents who had not taken it.
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The effect of uncertainty on learning in game-like environments
TL;DR: A game-like learning tool was developed to teach a database concept in higher education programs of software engineering and it is revealed that uncertainty enhances learning.
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Big Data Software Engineering: Analysis of Knowledge Domains and Skill Sets Using LDA-Based Topic Modeling
TL;DR: The findings of this paper are expected to help evaluate and improve IT professionals’ vocational knowledge and skills, identify professional roles and competencies in personnel recruitment processes of companies, and meet the skill requirements of the industry through software engineering education programs.