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Download full textHajian, Shiva – IAFOR Journal of Education, 2019
One of the primary goals of education is to ensure that learners can apply their acquired knowledge in various ways and under different circumstances. However, this expected "transfer" does not always occur and, therefore, the acquired knowledge cannot be flexibly employed in different contexts. One way to minimize this problem is to…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Teaching Methods, Situated Learning, Comparative Analysis
Melnychenko, Anatolii; Akimova, Olena – Advanced Education, 2019
The paper focuses on the comparative analysis of professional competences development in public management and administration university programmes and the possibilities of implementation of international experience in Ukraine. Using the methods of comparative and system-functional analysis, synthesis and generalisation, the authors concentrate on…
Descriptors: Management Development, Public Administration, Problem Based Learning, Case Studies
Obikwelu, Chinedu; Read, Janet; Sim, Gavin – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2013
For a child to learn through Problem-Solving in Serious games, the game scaffolding mechanism has to be effective. Scaffolding is based on the Vygotzkian Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) concept which refers to the distance between the actual development level as determined by independent problem solving and the level of potential development as…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Learning Strategies, Child Development
Direct linkWalker, Andrew; Shelton, Brett E. – Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 2008
The overwhelming success of the commercial game market has brought increased attention to emerging work in educational game design. Much of the existing work in educational games has a strong similarity to the field of Problem-Based Learning (PBL), which has a rich history of conceptual literature as well as empirical investigations. Despite…
Descriptors: Investigations, Educational Games, Problem Based Learning, Teaching Methods
Peer reviewedIngram, Carolyn; Ray, Karen; Keane, David R.; Landeen, Janet – Journal of Nursing Education, 1998
Nursing students (n=131) were randomly assigned to groups; half used an educational game involving problem-based learning, half were conventionally taught. Groups switched treatments in the second term. First-term posttests showed higher scores for the game group; second-term posttests showed no differences, suggesting the impact of the game…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Educational Games, Higher Education
Connolly, Thomas; Stanfield, Mark – Journal of Information Technology Education, 2006
The contributions of this research center on two major areas: delineation of a new model of distance education in which the authors identify three generations of eLearning; and examination of how eLearning and games-based eLearning technologies can be used to enrich the Information Systems (IS) learning experiences of students with different…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Technology, Learning Experience, Teaching Methods
