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Matisse Poupard; Florian Larrue; Hélène Sauzéon; André Tricot – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2025
Immersive technologies are assumed to have many benefits for learning due to their potential positive impact on optimizing learners' cognitive load and fostering intrinsic motivation. However, despite promising results, the findings regarding the actual impact on learning remain inconclusive, raising questions about the determinants of efficacy.…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Academic Achievement, Cognitive Processes, Learning Motivation
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Yuanyuan Hu; Pieter Wouters; Marieke van der Schaaf; Liesbeth Kester – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2025
Learning with games requires two types of information, namely domain-specific information and game-specific information. Presenting these two types of information together with gameplay may pose a heavy demand on cognitive resources. This study investigates how timing of information presentation affects cognition (ie, mental effort and…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Secondary School Students, Chemistry, Schemata (Cognition)
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Yujie Zhou; Huiping Wu; Ge Cao – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2025
High dropout rates in online courses, caused by potential factors such as financial issues, low motivation and poor self-regulation among learners, pose a significant challenge to the sustainable development of online education. Therefore, continuance of online courses has become a critical topic in both the academic and practical fields. By…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Inquiry, Communities of Practice, Teacher Attendance
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Huang, Hsiu-Ling; Hwang, Gwo-Jen; Chen, Pei-Ying – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2022
Scholars and researchers generally believe that scientific inquiry is an important activity for cultivating students' applied knowledge and high-level thinking ability. The process of scientific inquiry can promote students' learning motivation and trigger their higher-order thinking ability. However, students may not have enough prior knowledge…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Visual Perception, Recognition (Psychology), Science Process Skills
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Novak, Elena; McDaniel, Kerrie; Daday, Jerry; Soyturk, Ilker – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2022
e-Textbooks and e-learning technologies have become ubiquitous in college and university courses as faculty seek out ways to provide more engaging, flexible and customizable learning opportunities for students. However, the same technologies that support learning can serve as a source of frustration. Research on frustration with technology is…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Electronic Publishing, Textbooks, Student Attitudes
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Qiao, Shen; Yeung, Susanna Siu-sze; Shen, Xiaoai; Chu, Samuel Kai Wah – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2022
Purpose: Morphological awareness (MA), the ability to reflect on and manipulate the smallest language units within a word, has been identified as an essential metalinguistic awareness to predict literacy development. In this study, we examine whether an online gamified English MA programme is more effective than physical face-to-face instruction…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Metalinguistics, Literacy, Prediction