USING STUDENTS’ COLLABORATION TO IMPROVE ACTIVE PARTICIPATION TO UNIVERSITY COURSES WITH A LARGE NUMBER OF ATTENDEES

Students’ active participation to large bachelor courses (i.e. courses with hundred or more attendants) is difficult to stimulate and monitor. As a result, many students may defer studying until shortly before the exam, wasting their time and loosing contact with the courses, where they continue to show up but are unable to harvest useful knowledge. To cure the problem, we devised a computer-supported methodology based to an implicit form of collaboration/competition: a sort of serious social game where students are requested to formulate questions for their peers, propose answer and choose the best responses. Evaluation of such approach yields results, which students perceive as excellent.