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Wang, Qiong; Zhong, Yunhua; Zhao, Guoqing; Song, Ruijun; Zeng, Chengshi – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
Ongoing smartphone use links to heightened technostress. However, the content types of smartphone use are various, and little is known about which types of content use are significantly associated with technostress. This study aims to examine the impacts of specific types of smartphone use (i.e., learning-related use, entertainment-related use,…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Telecommunications, Anxiety, College Students
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Parmaksiz, Izzet – Education and Information Technologies, 2022
The purpose of the study was to examine whether personality traits had a mediator role on the relationship between university students' digital addiction behaviour and academic self-efficacy. The study sample consisted of 1348 students (876 females and 472 males) who were chosen through random sampling from university students who from different…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Personality Traits, Self Efficacy
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Tang, Joni Tzuchen; Nine, Wei Tung; Wang, Yi Chen – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
Children always have a natural inclination to play, so the purpose of game-based learning is to establish a way for children to acquire knowledge while playing. This study is to discover the relationship between children's play preferences and learning performances toward a mathematics mobile game we designed. The tablet game we designed,…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Preschool Children, Mathematics Education, Game Based Learning
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Saman Ebadi; Hanieh Azizimajd – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
This study reports the results of a mixed-methods investigation on the impact of task-based speaking practices using the Clubhouse application outside the classroom on EFL learners' oral fluency and willingness to communicate (WTC). Sixty upper-intermediate EFL learners were divided into experimental and control groups practicing speaking skills…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), English Language Learners, Handheld Devices, Computer Software
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Sánchez-Fernández, Magdalena; Borda-Mas, Mercedes – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
University students are a high-risk population with problematic online behaviours that include generalized problematic Internet/smartphone use and specific problematic Internet uses (for example, social media or gaming). The study of their predictive factors is needed in order to develop preventative strategies. This systematic review aims to…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Behavior, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices
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Sotirios Karanasios; Marina Papastergiou – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
Location Based Games (LBGs) can support various learning activities in both formal and informal settings. Furthermore, the fact that they can utilize players' physical movement for players' advancement in the game world makes them an appealing alternative for promoting physical activity in students. However, LBGs are not sufficiently used in…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Educational Games, Learning Management Systems, Telecommunications
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Graben, Katharina; Doering, Bettina K.; Barke, Antonia – Education and Information Technologies, 2022
In this study, we investigated whether the use of smartphone games while reading a text reduces learning performance or reading speed. We also examined whether this is affected by push notifications. Ninety-three students were randomly assigned to three learning conditions. In the gaming group (G), participants played a game app for 20 s at 2-min…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Computer Games, Reading Processes
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Yallihep, Mirac; Kutlu, Birgul – Education and Information Technologies, 2020
The purpose of this study was to measure the impacts of mobile serious games on fifth grade students' attitudes towards "Information Technology and Software" course and understanding of programming concepts. For this purpose, a five weeks long study was conducted in a private primary school in Turkey with randomly selected 36 fifth grade…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Computer Software, Student Attitudes, Programming
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Tsai, Chia-Hui; Cheng, Ching-Hsue; Yeh, Duen-Yian; Lin, Shih-Yun – Education and Information Technologies, 2017
This study applied a quasi-experimental design to investigate the influence and predictive power of learner motivation for achievement, employing a mobile game-based English learning approach. A system called the Happy English Learning System, integrating learning material into a game-based context, was constructed and installed on mobile devices…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Case Studies, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning