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Kuba, Renata; Rahimi, Seyedahmad; Smith, Ginny; Shute, Valerie; Dai, Chih-Pu – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2021
Over three years, our research team has designed various learning supports for promoting content knowledge and solving game levels. In this case study, we examined the optimal design and the evaluation of learning support videos for a physics educational game. Often studies focus on investigating the effects of research-based principles without a…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Game Based Learning, Physics, Educational Principles
Kuba, Renata; Rahimi, Seyedahmad; Smith, Ginny; Shute, Valerie J.; Dai, Chih-Pu – Grantee Submission, 2021
Over three years, our research team has designed various learning supports for promoting content knowledge and solving game levels. In this case study, we examined the optimal design and the evaluation of learning support videos for a physics educational game. Often studies focus on investigating the effects of research-based principles without a…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Game Based Learning, Physics, Educational Principles
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Meral, Sert Agir – World Journal of Education, 2019
Examining attitudes of students towards learning, their academic achievements and internet addictions is the main focus of this study. With the institution permission obtained from the Provincial Directorate of National Education of Istanbul Governorship dated: 21.04.2016 and No: 59090411-20-E.4519158, a descriptive study in relational screening…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Academic Achievement, Internet, Addictive Behavior
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Motamedi, Vahid; Yaghoubi, Razeyah Mohagheghyan – Malaysian Online Journal of Educational Technology, 2015
This study aimed at investigating the relationship between computer game use and spatial abilities among high school students. The sample consisted of 300 high school male students selected through multi-stage cluster sampling. Data gathering tools consisted of a researcher made questionnaire (to collect information on computer game usage) and the…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Computer Games, High School Students, Computer Uses in Education
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Manero, Borja; Torrente, Javier; Fernandez-Vara, Clara; Fernandez-Manjon, Baltasar – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2017
This study examines the influence of players' age, gender, and gaming preferences and habits (from now on, "gaming preferences") on the effectiveness of a specific videogame that has been designed to increase the interest towards classical theater among teenagers. Using a validated instrument, participants were divided into four groups…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Gender Differences, Age Differences, Instructional Effectiveness
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Hong, Jon-Chao; Hwang, Ming-Yueh; Chen, Yu-Ju; Lin, Pei-Hsin; Huang, Yao-Tien; Cheng, Hao-Yueh; Lee, Chih-Chin – Computers & Education, 2013
Museums in Taiwan have developed various digital archives, but few people have visited these digital archives. Therefore, this study designed a digital archaeology game for high school students to play. Based on the concept of "learning for playing" (i.e., players who want to win will study more), the digital archaeology game contest…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Archaeology, High School Students, Intention
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Foster, Aroutis; Shah, Mamta – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2015
There is a need for game-based learning frameworks that provide a lens for understanding learning experiences afforded in digital games. These frameworks should aim to facilitate game analyses, identification of learning opportunities, and support for learner experiences. This article uses the inquiry, communication, construction, and expression…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Computer Games, Computer Uses in Education, Learning Experience
Schifter, Catherine C.; Cipollone, Maria; Moffat, Frederick – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2013
This paper describes an exploratory study observing the use of "Minecraft" (a popular sandbox style online video game environment) in a high school English literature classroom. We use Piaget and Inhelder's (1969) constructivist theories about the formal operational stage of development to interpret the concepts of plot and…
Descriptors: Video Games, Computer Games, High Schools, English Literature
Norton, Priscilla; Hathaway, Dawn – Educational Technology, 2012
In this article, the CLICK ("C"omputer Games and "L"iteracy "I"ntegrated with "C"ontent "K"nowledge) design model for high school education is proposed and developed as an instructional response to concerns about content coverage versus deeper content knowledge, learners' inability to grasp the meanings embedded in complex text, and disregard for…
Descriptors: Expertise, Instructional Design, High Schools, Computer Games
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Schrader, Claudia; Bastiaens, Theo – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2012
Embedding support devices in educational computer games has been asserted to positively affect learning outcomes. However, there is only limited direct empirical evidence on which design variations of support provision influence learning. In order to better understand the impact of support design on novices' learning, the current study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Games, Educational Games, Computer Uses in Education
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Eseryel, Deniz; Ge, Xun; Ifenthaler, Dirk; Law, Victor – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2011
Following a design-based research framework, this article reports two empirical studies with an educational MMOG, called "McLarin's Adventures," on facilitating 9th-grade students' complex problem-solving skill acquisition in interdisciplinary STEM education. The article discusses the nature of complex and ill-structured problem solving…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Problem Solving, Followup Studies, Skill Development
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Urban, Michael J., Ed.; Falvo, David A., Ed. – IGI Global, 2016
The application of technology in classroom settings has equipped educators with innovative tools and techniques for effective teaching practice. Integrating digital technologies at the elementary and secondary levels helps to enrich the students' learning experience and maximize competency in the areas of science, technology, engineering, and…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, STEM Education, Outcomes of Education, Technology Integration
Project Tomorrow, 2012
For the past nine years, the Speak Up National Research Project has endeavored to stimulate new discussions around how technology tools and services can transform education and to provide a context to help educators, parents, and policy and business leaders think beyond today and envision tomorrow. In last year's report, "The New 3E's of…
Descriptors: Internet, Stakeholders, Learner Controlled Instruction, Computer Use
Project Tomorrow, 2011
For the past eight years, the Speak Up National Research Project has endeavored to stimulate new discussions around these kinds of questions and to provide a context to help education, parent, policy and business leaders think beyond today and envision tomorrow. This report is the first in a two part series to document the key national findings…
Descriptors: Electronic Publishing, Textbooks, Blended Learning, Educational Policy