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Emily Duwan; Francis Choi; Brian Helmuth – Journal of STEM Outreach, 2019
Virtual reality environments are becoming increasingly popular as educational tools, but it remains unclear when these environments enhance learning or when they are a distraction from the learning process. We compared two different methods for teaching ecological concepts about the rocky intertidal zone by comparing an experimental (virtual)…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Computer Simulation, Marine Education, Ecology
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Saab, Nadira; van Joolingen, Wouter R.; van Hout-Wolters, B. H. A. M. – Educational Studies, 2009
In this study, we investigated the influence of individual learners' motivation on the collaborative discovery learning process. In this we distinguished the motivation of the individual learners and had eye for the composition of groups, which could be homogeneous or heterogeneous in terms of motivation. The study involved 73 dyads of 10th-grade…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Discovery Learning, Cooperative Learning, Secondary School Students