NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Publication Type
Journal Articles18
Reports - Evaluative18
Information Analyses1
Audience
Location
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Showing 1 to 15 of 18 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Tiemann, Rüdiger; Annaggar, Amany – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
This paper proposes a framework for designing digital environments and illustrates this framework using the example of a video game (Alchemist). The increasing importance of digital environments for educational systems (e.g. for teaching and assessing twenty-first century skills) makes it necessary to have standards for their quality. These…
Descriptors: Video Games, Educational Games, Technology Uses in Education, Problem Solving
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Schrier, Karen – Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education, 2018
Video games are starting to be used to support civic learning and engagement. Moreover, games are being used to crowdsource solutions to real-world problems; however, few of these games address civic problems and engage adolescents and young adults. In this paper, I explore designing and using games for real-world civic problem-solving, as well as…
Descriptors: Video Games, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Citizenship Education
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Michael B. Sherry; Ann M. Lawrence – English Journal, 2019
In this article, the authors begin this inquiry by describing their research with a class of middle school writers who played "Quandary," a free online educational game designed to teach argumentation, as part of a unit on writing arguments for environmental action. Regarding the subject area of English language arts (ELA), research has…
Descriptors: Video Games, Technology Uses in Education, Language Arts, Middle School Students
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Piirainen-Marsh, Arja; Tainio, Liisa – Modern Language Journal, 2014
While a growing number of studies investigate the role of knowledge and interactional management of knowledge asymmetries in conversation analysis, the epistemic organization of multilingual and second language interactions is still largely unexplored. This article addresses this issue by investigating how knowledge asymmetries and changing…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Discourse Analysis, Multilingualism, Video Games
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Karagiorgas, Dimitrios N.; Niemann, Shari – Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 2017
In the last 10 years, gaming has evolved to the point that it is now being used as a learning medium to educate students in many different disciplines. The educational community has begun to explore the effectiveness of gaming as a learning tool and as a result two different ways of utilizing games for education have been created: Gamification and…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Video Games, Comparative Analysis, Learning Processes
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Blumberg, Fran C.; Randall, John D. – Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 2013
We examined the problem-solving behaviors that 5th, 6th, and 7th graders used to negotiate a novel recreational video game. Students were characterized as frequent or infrequent players and instructed to think aloud during game play for 20 consecutive minutes. Comments were used to make inferences about the students' problem-solving behaviors…
Descriptors: Play, Problem Solving, Inferences, Video Games
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
McBride, Holly – Social Studies, 2014
Students in this post-industrial technological age require opportunities for the acquisition of new skills, especially in the marketplace of innovation. A pedagogical strategy that is becoming more and more popular within social studies classrooms is the use of computer and video games as enhancements to everyday lesson plans. Computer/video games…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Computer Games, Video Games, Teaching Methods
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Kooiman, Brian J.; Kim, Heeja; Li, Wenling; Wesolek, Michael – International Journal of Technology in Teaching and Learning, 2013
Video games may seem an odd place to find Common Core State Standard implementation strategies. A closer look reveals that educational principles found in certain video game genres might help update instructional strategies that no longer engage contemporary learners. These video game strategies can explain why learners will spend hours playing…
Descriptors: Educational Principles, Video Games, Play, Cooperative Learning
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
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
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Offenholley, Kathleen – Journal of Mathematics Education at Teachers College, 2011
Video games have tremendous potential in mathematics education, yet there is a push to simply add mathematics to a video game without regard to whether the game structure suits the mathematics, and without regard to the level of mathematical thought being learned in the game. Are students practicing facts, or are they problem-solving? This paper…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Video Games, Educational Technology
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Ching, Dixie – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2012
Researchers and instructional designers are exploring the possibilities of using video games to support STEM education in the U.S., not only because they are a popular media form among youth, but also because well-designed games often leverage the best features of inquiry learning. Those interested in using games in an educational capacity may…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Constructivism (Learning), Expertise, Video Games
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Toscano, Aaron Antonio – Current Issues in Education, 2011
Video games are growing as a subject for scholarly analysis (Gee, 2003; Selfe & Hawisher 2004; Selfe & Hawisher 2004, 2007): This discussion argues that video games are another simulacra for postmodern cultural critique. Video games do cultural work by allowing gamers to play out socially constructed hopes and fears. As cultural products mediated…
Descriptors: Video Games, Young Adults, Case Studies, Computer Literacy
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Nachimuthu, K.; Vijayakumari, G. – Journal of Educational Technology, 2011
A game is a set of activities involving one or more players. It has goals, constraints, payoffs, and consequences. A game is rule-guided and artificial in some respects. (Richard Wilson, 2010). According to Garris et al. (2002), define educational game play as "voluntary, nonproductive, and separate from the real world"; and they found…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Learning Activities, Thinking Skills, Skill Development
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Jackson, Janna – Teaching Education, 2009
Most teachers only dream of their students spending the amount of motivation, attention, passion, and critical thinking on their classes that some students do playing videogames. This investigation examines the success, pitfalls, and lessons learned from incorporating videogame-like components into an educational technology class. For example,…
Descriptors: Assignments, Video Games, Protocol Analysis, Focus Groups
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Schmidt, Marie Evans; Vandewater, Elizabeth A. – Future of Children, 2008
Marie Evans Schmidt and Elizabeth Vandewater review research on links between various types of electronic media and the cognitive skills of school-aged children and adolescents. One central finding of studies to date, they say, is that the content delivered by electronic media is far more influential than the media themselves. Most studies, they…
Descriptors: Video Games, Academic Achievement, Hyperactivity, Transfer of Training
Previous Page | Next Page »
Pages: 1  |  2