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Bodzin, Alec; Junior, Robson Araujo; Hammond, Thomas; Anastasio, David – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2021
An immersive virtual reality (iVR) game for high school students to learn about locations in their watershed with a primary focus on their city was designed and developed, employing a design model that focuses on flow. An exploratory study with the iVR game was conducted in an urban school in the eastern USA with 57 adolescents ages 16-18 from a…
Descriptors: High School Students, Computer Games, Computer Simulation, Place Based Education
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Robson M. Araujo-Junior; Alec M. Bodzin – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
Digital game-based and gamified technologies hold much promise to promote the development of learners' conceptual knowledge. This efficacy study used desktop virtual reality (dVR) to investigate how the place-based digital gameful learning experience (DGLE) "Watershed Explorers", implemented as a curriculum enhancement activity, impacted…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Place Based Education, Learning Experience, Middle School Students
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Oltman, Julie; Hammond, Thomas C. – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
This mixed-methods study explored the use of an augmented reality, location-based, iPad game to enhance the learning experience of young elementary history students. Utilizing the ARIS platform and a design-based research approach, researchers and teachers built a customized game experience that was inserted into a school's traditional second…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, History Instruction, Computer Simulation, Elementary School Students