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Kantorski, Brinley – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Digital educational games have been a part of the educational landscape since the early 1970s. Since then, there has been a proliferation in the quantity, format, type, and quality of digital educational games available to classroom teachers. Despite this, the body of literature surrounding the effectiveness of these digital educational games…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Educational Technology, Video Games, Program Effectiveness
Bawa, Papia – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The study investigated the use of Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOG) in English and Business classrooms in Higher Education from the context of learners' performance outcomes, as well as stakeholders' (learners, administrators, and faculty) perceptions pertaining to their experiences when using an MMOG based curriculum. The findings…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Simulated Environment, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
Tarbay, Joshua J. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The problem addressed in this study was the increasing number of overweight and obese children and the increased demand for cost-effective methods of combating this epidemic. One method used to promote weight loss and to increase movement levels and cardiovascular endurance among school-aged children, is the Konami [R] brand dancing game, Dance…
Descriptors: Metabolism, Physical Education, College Students, Obesity
Lee, Joey J. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Serious Games are digital games with an educational, informative, or persuasive goal beyond mere entertainment (Abt, 2002). They are promising because they often contain features that appear to be useful for learning (Squire, 2004), eliciting behavioral or attitudinal change (Yee, 2007) or encouraging new perspective taking, empathy, and new ways…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Educational Games, Individual Development, Identification (Psychology)