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Tom Harrison – Journal of Moral Education, 2024
Virtual reality (VR) is an increasingly popular artificially mediated, immersive experience that is accessed through a headset. Recent research is starting to provide evidence about the positive impact that virtual reality technology can have on teaching and learning. This research, to date, has been primarily undertaken in higher education and in…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Values Education, Educational Technology, Ethics
Bos, Daniel; Miller, Servel; Bull, Eloise – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2022
This article outlines how Virtual Reality (VR) technologies, software and content can be used as a resource for teaching and learning in Geography. Drawing on the authors' first-hand experiences of using VR for undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, we explore firstly how VR can enhance the development of fieldwork observational techniques,…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Teaching Methods, Learning Strategies, Geography
Agrati, Laura Sara; Burgos, Daniel; Ducange, Pietro; Limone, Pierpaolo; Pecori, Riccardo; Perla, Loredana; Picerno, Pietro; Raviolo, Paolo; Stracke, Christian M. – Education Sciences, 2021
In this paper, we report the scientific experience of HELMeTO 2020, the second edition of the International Workshop on Higher Education Learning Methodologies and Technologies Online, held virtually in Bari (Italy) in September 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The call received 59 proposals from nine countries, 39 papers were accepted to…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Higher Education, Electronic Learning, Technology Uses in Education
Delisio, Lauren A.; Dieker, Lisa – Childhood Education, 2019
The number of students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in elementary mathematics classrooms today is on the rise and educators around the world are seeking innovative methods for teaching them. The authors of this article describe using an avatar-based program called TeachLivE to help students with ASD develop a graphic organizer strategy to…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Mathematics
Franetovic, Marija – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 2016
This case study research sought to understand a subset of the next generation in reference to virtual world learning within a game development course. The students completed an ill-structured team project which was facilitated using authentic learning strategies within a virtual world over a period of seven weeks. Research findings emerged from…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Instructional Design, Student Developed Materials, Computer Simulation
Schwarz, Claudiu – Journal of Educational Sciences, 2017
The term of implicit learning is still subject to controversy. "At least a dozen different definitions have been offered in the field" (Frensch & Rünger, 2003 p.13). While some scholars consider it downright inexistent (see Chun & Jiang, 1998), many others are trying to identify how we seem to acquire knowledge in absence of…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Informal Education, Information Technology, Video Technology
Cadotte, Ernest R. – Journal of Marketing Education, 2016
Simulations are a form of competitive training that can provide transformational learning. Participants are pushed by the competition and their own desire to win as well as the continual feedback, encouragement, and guidance of a Business Coach. Simulations enable students to apply their knowledge and practice their business skills over and over.…
Descriptors: Marketing, Business Administration Education, Computer Simulation, Computer Uses in Education
Stokrocki, Mary – Art Education, 2014
Treasure quests in virtual worlds can help students develop multi-literacy communication skills and promote community, offering insights about art teaching and learning. As part of the new media literacy, students explore the offerings of Second Life (SL), a virtual world, as a series of quests. Multi-literacy involves communication. Through their…
Descriptors: Art Education, Communication Skills, Multiple Literacies, Computer Simulation
Stankovic, Nenad; Tillo, Tammam – Journal of Information Technology Education, 2009
Concurrent engineering or overlapping activities is a business strategy for schedule compression on large development projects. Design parameters and tasks from every aspect of a product's development process and their interdependencies are overlapped and worked on in parallel. Concurrent engineering suffers from negative effects such as excessive…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Learning Strategies, Engineering, Teaching Methods
Cole, Anne; Berge, Zane L. – Journal of Educational Technology, 2009
Corporate training professionals led the explosion of e-learning solutions in the 1990s. Yet in 2008, as new generations of technology-savvy, computer games-oriented employees are entering the workforce, corporate training departments are far behind universities in exploring the use of virtual worlds like Second Life or Protosphere as platforms…
Descriptors: Corporate Education, Training, Electronic Learning, Computer Assisted Instruction
Foster, Aroutis – Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 2008
Game-based learning and designing has become a hot topic in educational technology. It is believed that video gaming is one way to get students engaged in learning complex and ill-structured material, holistic learning, and preparing learners for 21st century jobs. However, beyond engagement, games may also be used for learning and developing…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Science Interests, Learning Motivation, Educational Technology
Pirius, Landon K.; Creel, Gill – EDUCAUSE Quarterly, 2010
In an online class, it's not unusual to never see a teacher or classmates face-to-face. It's not unusual to interact with an instructor and classmates through discussion boards or e-mail and to get information through online documents and presentations rather than live lectures. In the spring of 2009 students in the online class "Warcraft:…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Asynchronous Communication, Course Content, Video Games
Teoh, Belinda Soo-Phing; Neo, Tse-Kian – Online Submission, 2007
Malaysian classrooms are progressively absorbing interactive multimedia as instructional strategies for teaching and learning. Though, till now, interactive multimedia in a Malaysian classroom is often limiting and is confined to the hybrid use of chalk-and-talk method with multimedia assisted materials, where learning is still largely…
Descriptors: Animation, Student Attitudes, Learning Strategies, Multimedia Instruction
Lainema, Timo; Lainema, Kirsi – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2008
The turbulent business environment requires business expertise from ever-larger personnel groups. The required business know-how is a combination of knowledge and several different skills, and it should provide the learners with an overall view of the functioning of a business organization as a whole. Moreover, while work is increasingly becoming…
Descriptors: Training Methods, Cooperation, Learning Strategies, Student Attitudes

Baker, Ann C.; And Others – Simulation & Gaming, 1997
Simulations and games are designed to provide participants with an experiential context for reflection and learning in classrooms, corporate training centers, and community-based organizations. A conversational approach to debriefing sessions is one way to more deeply involve participants in exploring the meaning of their experience from multiple…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Games, Computer Simulation, Experiential Learning