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Sunday, Kissinger; Wong, Seng Yue; Samson, Balogun Oluwafemi; Sanusi, Ismaila Temitayo – Education and Information Technologies, 2022
Learning object oriented programming (OOP) has been a daunting and challenging task for students across tertiary institutions in Nigeria. Various literatures have suggested the use of technology as a way to improve students' understanding of the subject. In this study, the overall aim is to investigate the effect of Imikode- a virtual reality (VR)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Computer Simulation, Programming
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Pavlos Toukiloglou; Stelios Xinogalos – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
Hour of Code is a widely recognized global event that aims to introduce programming to novice users and integrate computer science into education. This paper presents an analysis of the effectiveness of the support system and user interface of Minecraft Adventurer, a serious game designed for the Hour of Code global event. Although previous…
Descriptors: Novices, Programming, Coding, Computer Science Education
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Nardie Fanchamps; Emily van Gool; Lou Slangen; Paul Hennissen – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
Learning basic concepts of programming resulting in a development on computational thinking (CT) can be reached by means of digital programming environments. As a counterpart, the application of unplugged programming activities seems also to have promising potential regarding the impact on CT. The main characteristic of unplugged programming is…
Descriptors: Computation, Thinking Skills, Programming, Computer Peripherals
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Koupritzioti, Dimitra; Xinogalos, Stelios – Education and Information Technologies, 2020
Serious games or educational games have attracted the interest of instructors and researchers for several years. In the field of education, serious games are being used for motivating students, attracting their interest in cognitively demanding fields and making the teaching and learning process more fun. Moreover, learning through implementing…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Mathematics Activities, Mathematics Education, Programming
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Seralidou, Eleni; Douligeris, Christos – Education and Information Technologies, 2021
The effective teaching of the concept of programming, where critical thinking is an important factor, is not so easy in secondary education. New teaching approaches, including, game-based learning, may provide a solution due to their inclusion of more fun and diverse activities but they still lack the active participation of the students in the…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Programming, Programming Languages, Educational Games
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Djelil, Fahima; Sanchez, Eric – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
Game based-learning have been widely promoted to overcome the difficulties encountered by beginners to learn programming. However, there are many issues to address for the implementation of game-based learning. Indeed, game-based learning is not limited to adding game elements such as rewards to a learning situation, but it rather consists of…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Educational Games, Design, Programming
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Zhang, Shuhan; Wong, Gary K. W.; Chan, Peter C. F. – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
Coding games are widely used to teach computational thinking (CT). Studies have broadly investigated the role of coding games in supporting CT learning in formal classroom contexts, but there has been limited exploration of their use in informal home-based settings. This study investigated the factors that motivated students to use a coding game…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Educational Games, Coding
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Abarkan, Ali; BenYakhlef, Majid – Education and Information Technologies, 2022
Learning to code is far from an easy task, it is a promising approach that underscores the use of the video game culture of students to motivate them to invest their time in the practice of programming. The students in this discipline are often discouraged by the amount of information to remember and the complex and constraining syntaxes.…
Descriptors: Programming Languages, Educational Games, Computer Games, Learning Motivation
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Ozyurt, Ozcan; Ozyurt, Hacer – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
Computational thinking (CT) has started to attract attention as an important research topic in recent years. It is important to describe the CT field in detail and to determine the research interests and trends of studies in this field. In this most comprehensive and first topic modeling based study in the field of CT, it was aimed to determine…
Descriptors: Computation, Thinking Skills, Educational Trends, Educational Research
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Aydin, Muharrem; Karal, Hasan; Nabiyev, Vasif – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
This study aims to examine adaptability for educational games in terms of adaptation elements, components used in creating user profiles, and decision algorithms used for adaptation. For this purpose, articles and full-text papers in Web of Science, Google Scholar, and Eric databases between 2000-2021 were searched using the keywords…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Game Based Learning, Programming, Physics
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Betül Tonbuloglu – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
The purpose of this research is to evaluate the potential of use for computer science course designs (CSCD) created by game-based learning method. Qualitative case study was used as the research design. CSCDs created for Minecraft Education Edition (MinecraftEdu) were examined in the context of various criteria by document analysis method, and…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Computer Science Education, Video Games, Computer Assisted Design
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Kroustalli, Chrysoula; Xinogalos, Stelios – Education and Information Technologies, 2021
Serious games, or else educational games, for programming are considered to have a positive impact on learning programming. Specifically, serious games are considered to motivate students and engage them in playing and learning programming. However, more research is required in order to study their effects in learning programming, as well as their…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Teaching Methods, Computer Science Education, Programming Languages
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Yadav, Alok Kumar; Oyelere, Solomon Sunday – Education and Information Technologies, 2021
This paper intends to present an overview of a mobile game-based learning application, BaghLearn that develops and upskills programming and algorithmic knowledge by cross-curricular capabilities through a traditional world-based game. The focus of this research was to explore the learning effectiveness of BaghLearn on students. Mixed method…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Handheld Devices, Educational Games
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Giannakoulas, Andreas; Xinogalos, Stelios – Education and Information Technologies, 2018
Educational games are increasingly used in informal and formal educational settings for promoting active learning and gaining students' interest in cognitively demanding subjects, such as programming. However, empirical studies that investigate the true impact of educational games on teaching and learning programming, especially to small aged…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Video Games