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Mariusz Kruk – Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2021
This chapter discusses issues concerning the design and implementation of the research project dealing with the changes in the levels of willingness to communicate, motivation, boredom and language anxiety, their relationships and factors influencing them in the course of the participants' visits to the virtual world Second Life. [For the complete…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Individual Differences, Computer Simulation
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Winning, Colin – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2020
ResDiary is a Glasgow-based software company providing software to the hospitality industry. Over a 9-year period the company has grown from 5 to 100 employees and increased annual turnover 20x. In January 2019, the CEO retired from the business and two new CEOs were appointed. This account of practice investigates what organisational changes were…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Computer Software, Hospitality Occupations, Corporations
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Stokols, Daniel; Misra, Shalini; Runnerstrom, Miryha Gould; Hipp, J. Aaron – American Psychologist, 2009
Recent technological, geophysical, and societal forces have fundamentally altered the structure and functioning of human environments. Prominent among these forces are the rise of the Internet; rapid rates of global environmental change; and widening rifts among different socioeconomic, racial, religious, and ethnic groups. The present article…
Descriptors: Change, Global Approach, Social Change, Computer Simulation
Saito, Ron – Educational Technology, 2002
Examines instructional computer simulation from a Heideggerian point of view, claiming that traditional conceptions of simulation do not account for important characteristics of existence, namely anxiety and waiting. Discusses Heidegger's conception of Bestand, or standing reserve, and suggests implications for instruction. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Anxiety, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Simulation, Instructional Design