Manuscript received December 29, 2022; revised February 14, 2023; accepted March 6, 2023.
Abstract—The paper examines a form of training whose aim
is to teach technologies for designing and styling responsive web
page views and implementing web site events by students in an
academic environment. In this form of training a role-play,
taken by the practice of a software company is simulated. Data
collection and evaluation of the results was carried out through
qualitative methods of participant observation, survey,
interview, and quantitative comparative analysis. The article
analyzes in details the role-playing games, training content,
stages of implementation and other aspects of the organization
of experimental form of training in Web Design and Web
Programming. Teaching, as a simulated role-playing game, is
performed during six school hours, in two consecutive weeks
and consists of four stages. In the role play, students apply
knowledge and teamwork skills in HTML, CSS, JavaScript,
jQuery etc. Each team is made up of five students with roles of
manager, web designer, graphics designer, web stylist and web
developer. The teams’ organization is based on work products
adaptation of the Rational Unified Process Methodology. The
end product of the role-playing game is the development of a
website by the team, while its final result for the learning
process is the knowledge and skills acquired during formal
training by the teacher, and the informal training that took
place between the students during their teamwork.
Index Terms—Role play, innovative teaching, web design,
web programming
I. V. Velcheva is with the Department of Education in Mathematics,
Informatics and Information Technology, Faculty of Mathematics and
Informatics, Paisii Hilendarski Plovdiv University, Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
E-mail: ivelinavelcheva@uni-plovdiv.bg (I.V.V.)
H. Hristov is with the Department of Software Technology, Faculty of
Mathematics and Informatics, Paisii Hilendarski Plovdiv University, Plovdiv,
Bulgaria.
*Correspondence: hth@uni-plovdiv.bg (H. H.)
Cite: Ivelina V. Velcheva and Hristo Hristov*, "Teaching of Web Design and Programming as a Role-Playing Team Building Game," International Journal of Information and Education Technology vol. 13, no. 5, pp. 825-830, 2023.
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