Peel the Onion: Use of Collaborative and Gamified Tools to Enhance Software Engineering Education

As software engineering and information systems projects become more and more of collaborative nature, project-based courses are an integral part of information system (IS) and system engineering (SE) curricula. Several challenges stem from the nature of these courses, the most significant are equal participation of all students, and creating projects of high quality and utility. Several mechanisms, such as gamification and collaborative tools, were helpful when dealing with these challenges. This paper present a teaching case, where several tools were used, based on the onion model for open source systems, and several motivation theories.