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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
Evaluating a New Online Course in the Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases by Studying Student Learning Styles
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Rogers, James W.; Cox, James R. – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2008
At RMIT University, students may now elect to study infectious diseases through a course called Outbreak--The Detection and Control of Infectious Disease. Outbreak was designed to simulate in an online class the effective teamwork required to bring resolution to outbreak crises and enable frameworks for future prevention. The appropriateness of…
Descriptors: Action Research, Online Courses, Communicable Diseases, Epidemiology
Individual Skill Differences and Large-Scale Environmental Learning
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Fields, Alexa W.; Shelton, Amy L. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2006
Spatial skills are known to vary widely among normal individuals. This project was designed to address whether these individual differences are differentially related to large-scale environmental learning from route (ground-level) and survey (aerial) perspectives. Participants learned two virtual environments (route and survey) with limited…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Spatial Ability, Visual Measures, Computer Simulation
Experiments with Computer-Simulated Microworlds: Escaping Both the Narrow Straits of the Laboratory and the Deep Blue Sea of the Field Study.
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Brehmer, Berndt; Dorner, Dietrich – Computers in Human Behavior, 1993
Discusses experimental work with computer-simulated microworlds as a means for overcoming the tension between laboratory research and field research in psychology. Topics addressed include characteristics of microworlds; examples of microworlds; and three approaches to research with microworlds, including the individual differences approach, case…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Computer Simulation, Field Studies, Individual Differences
The Cognitive Effects of Computer Learning Environments.
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Mandinach, Ellen B.; Linn, Marcia C. – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 1986
In this review of the research on how current computer learning environments can foster the acquisition of complex cognitive skills, two issues emerge: (1) what cognitive accomplishments are likely in the computer environment; and (2) what factors predispose students to benefit from the environment. (MBR)
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Access to Education, Cognitive Processes, Computer Simulation
Supporting Information and Communications Technology in the Early Years. Supporting Early Learning Series.
Siraj-Blatchford, John; Whitebread, David – 2003
The rapid growth of information and communication technologies (ICT) has prompted concerns among parents, educators, and policymakers over the suitability of many educational applications and electronic toys for young children. This book provides information on how children from birth to age 6 develop an early awareness--and subsequently develop…
Descriptors: Child Development, Childhood Needs, Cognitive Development, Computer Games