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Parson, Vanessa; Bignell, Simon – Online Learning, 2017
Three-dimensional multi-user virtual environments (MUVEs) have the potential to provide experiential learning qualitatively similar to that found in the real world. MUVEs offer a pedagogically-driven immersive learning opportunity for educationalists that is cost-effective and enjoyable. A family of digital virtual avatars was created within…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Computer Simulation, Problem Based Learning, Teaching Methods
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Rienties, Bart; Lewis, Tim; McFarlane, Ruth; Nguyen, Quan; Toetenel, Lisette – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2018
Language education has a rich history of research and scholarship focusing on the effectiveness of learning activities and the impact these have on student behaviour and outcomes. One of the basic assumptions in foreign language pedagogy and CALL in particular is that learners want to be able to communicate effectively with native speakers of…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Peng, Chengzhi – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2013
Funded by the UK JISC Institutional Innovation Programme, the Augustine House Experiment sets out to investigate how the location sensing data collected over students' uses of the iBorrow notebooks can be visualised to reveal aspects of the new learning landscape during a 1-week sensing period. Indoor real-time location sensing technologies are…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Computer Simulation, Hypothesis Testing, Data Collection
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Comas-Quinn, Anna; de los Arcos, Beatriz; Mardomingo, Raquel – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2012
This article describes the rationale for pedagogical, technological and organisational choices in the design of a virtual learning environment (VLE) for an upper-intermediate Spanish course with regard to the roles of participants (tutors, moderators and learners). We report on findings from a preliminary evaluation of the interaction between the…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Spanish
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Fabricatore, Carlo; Lopez, Ximena – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2012
This study explored the potential of digital games as learning environments to develop mindsets capable of dealing with complexity in the domain of sustainability. Building sustainable futures requires the ability to deal with the complex dynamics that characterize the world in which we live. As central elements in this system, we must develop the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Games, Computer Games, Problem Solving
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Vallance, Michael; Martin, Stewart; Wiz, Charles; van Schaik, Paul – International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments, 2010
Science education is concerned with the meaningful pursuit of comprehension, knowledge and understanding of scientific concepts and processes. In Vygotskian social constructivist learning, personal interpretation, decision-making and community cooperation fosters long-term understanding and transference of learned concepts. The construction of…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Science Instruction, Science Education, Computer Simulation
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San Diego, Jonathan P.; Cox, Margaret J.; Quinn, Barry F. A.; Newton, Jonathan Tim; Banerjee, Avijit; Woolford, Mark – Computers & Education, 2012
hapTEL, an interdisciplinary project funded by two UK research councils from 2007 to 2011, involves a large interdisciplinary team (with undergraduate and post-graduate student participants) which has been developing and evaluating a virtual learning system within an HE healthcare education setting, working on three overlapping strands. Strand 1…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Development, Undergraduate Study, Graduate Students