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Stephan Pühringer; Georg Wolfmayr – Research Evaluation, 2024
This paper develops a better understanding of the explicit and implicit implications of the academic field's competitization, with a specific focus on the role that academic social networks and platforms (ASNPs) play in this process. While ASNPs are embedded within a broad and complex ecology of academic competition we show that particularly…
Descriptors: College Students, Social Networks, Discourse Communities, Computer Mediated Communication
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Hong, Jon-Chao; Hwang, Ming-Yueh; Lu, Chin-Hsieh; Cheng, Ching-Ling; Lee, Yu-Chen; Lin, Chan-Li – Interactive Learning Environments, 2009
Playfulness steering is an emerging approach in educational game design and play. The integration of arithmetical computation, game strategy, and teamwork into one game allows players to interactively "steer" the playfulness and enhance learning. In this paper an evolutionary contest game was designed and implemented to examine the…
Descriptors: Play, Educational Games, Action Research, Focus Groups
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Chappell, Kelly K. – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 1996
Analyzes, as a function of grade level, the representation of gender, competition, and violence in 17 top-selling software programs designed for mathematics education. Results indicate that mean percentages of violence, competition against the program and competition against a peer increase across grade level; mean percentages of female characters…
Descriptors: Competition, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Graphics, Computer Software Evaluation