Learning SQL with games: pedagogical innovation when students are willing to mentor other students

Abstract

This work presents a peer learning project that combines innovative pedagogical strategies, centred on game-based tasks and narratives conceived, under the supervision of lecturers, by former students of a course unit who are willing to support their peers. It presents a brief theoretical introduction to the topics of peer-teaching and mentorship. To understand the context of this teaching and learning experimentation the formal course unit scenario is presented, followed by the organization and procedures of the project. The game dynamics of a mentoring session is illustrated by a detailed description of the session’s activities with some results supported by the feedback of students.