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Ole Johan Sando; Rasmus Kleppe; Ellen Beate Hansen Sandseter – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2025
Understanding children's willingness to take risks is crucial for sound educational strategies and play environments. This study investigates children's risk willingness using a virtual reality (VR) playground balancing scenario and examines its associations with sensation-seeking personality trait, age, gender, and the likelihood of failing the…
Descriptors: Play, Children, Child Behavior, Computer Simulation
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Maria Efstratopoulou; Maxwell Peprah Opoku; Aizhan Shomotova; Christina Davison; Abdulrafi Jaffarul; Aalya Mesmar – Smart Learning Environments, 2024
A smart learning environment (SLE) encompasses the use of advanced technology and smart pedagogical teaching skills tailored to suit students with diverse learning needs. In recent years, some countries, such as the United Arab Emirates (UAE), have formulated policies to implement SLE in their education systems. Since students are the intended…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Grade 7, Grade 12
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Marín, Verónica; Sampedro, Begoña Esther; Muñoz González, Juan Manuel; Vega, Esther María – Cogent Education, 2022
Augmented reality is a great value resource in the area of education, as it allows the students to become immersed in a hybrid context between the real world and the digital one, bringing realities closer to the classroom which would otherwise be impossible to reach, improving the student's motivation and also facilitating the construction of…
Descriptors: Primary Education, Computer Simulation, Preservice Teachers, Foreign Countries
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Delacruz, Stacy – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2019
Students deepen their content knowledge and collaborative skills as they interact with others across the globe. In order to deepen early childhood students' awareness and understanding of the world, teachers worked with their classes to develop and share school-based virtual field trips. The researcher sought to (a) identify the steps to create a…
Descriptors: Field Trips, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Computer Simulation
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Pennington, Colin G.; Curtner-Smith, Matthew D.; Wind, Stefanie A. – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2019
Purpose: To examine the impact of a physical education teacher's age on students' learning and perceptions of the teacher. Method: A total of 188 elementary students were randomly assigned to view one of two virtually identical filmed swimming lessons. In the young-appearance lesson, the teacher was youthful. In the middle-aged lesson, he had been…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Physical Education Teachers, Physical Education, Age Differences
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Peng, Li-Wei; Lee, Cheun-Yeong – Excellence in Education Journal, 2020
The research partnership among university faculty, information technology graduate students, and science content experts from school districts developed the Web-based two-dimensional and three-dimensional virtual reality science games. The games were implemented to engage middle school students in learning, retaining, and applying newly acquired…
Descriptors: Educational Research, College Faculty, Graduate Students, Information Technology
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Seals, Cheryl D.; McMillian, Yolanda; Rouse, Kenneth; Agarwal, Ravikant; Johnson, Andrea Williams; Gilbert, Juan E.; Chapman, Richard – Journal of Educational Technology, 2008
This research has two thrusts of teaching object oriented programming to very young audiences and of increasing student excitement about computing applications with the long-term goal of increasing involvement in technology classes, in the use of computer applications and interest in technology careers. The goal of this work was to provide…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Educational Games, Instructional Design, Computer Science Education