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Comparing Immersive Virtual Reality to Mobile Applications in Foreign Language Learning in Higher Education: A Quasi-Experiment
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Nicolaidou, Iolie; Pissas, Petros; Boglou, Dimitrios – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
Virtual Reality applications are predicted to create a paradigm shift in education, but there is little empirical evidence of their educational value. Virtual Reality affordances to support language learning have not yet been realized. This quasi-experimental study investigated the effect of a Virtual Reality application on foreign language…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Computer Simulation, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices
Scaffolding Augmented Reality Inquiry Learning: The Design and Investigation of the "TraceReaders" Location-Based, Augmented Reality Platform
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Kyza, Eleni A.; Georgiou, Yiannis – Interactive Learning Environments, 2019
While learning can happen anywhere and everywhere, most educational practices in K-12 are confined within the walls of a classroom and the school; such practices narrowly define learning and exclude the opportunities that an expanded and digitally mediated definition of learning can offer. Augmented reality (AR) technologies offer exciting new…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Simulated Environment, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Inquiry
An Inquiry-Based Augmented Reality Mobile Learning Approach to Fostering Primary School Students' Historical Reasoning in Non-Formal Settings
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Efstathiou, Irene; Kyza, Eleni A.; Georgiou, Yiannis – Interactive Learning Environments, 2018
This study investigated the contribution of a location-based augmented reality (AR) inquiry-learning environment in developing 3rd grade students' historical empathy and conceptual understanding. Historical empathy is an important element of historical thinking, which is considered to improve conceptual understanding and support the development of…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Active Learning, Computer Simulation, Electronic Learning
Enhance Learning on Software Project Management through a Role-Play Game in a Virtual World
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Maratou, Vicky; Chatzidaki, Eleni; Xenos, Michalis – Interactive Learning Environments, 2016
This article presents a role-play game for software project management (SPM) in a three-dimensional online multiuser virtual world. The Opensimulator platform is used for the creation of an immersive virtual environment that facilitates students' collaboration and realistic interaction, in order to manage unexpected events occurring during the…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Computer Simulation, Program Development, Teaching Methods