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Michelle McCarthy – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Nursing education is facing challenging demands today with the NextGen NCLEX scheduled for release in Spring 2023, updated American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) Essentials, and distance learning due to COVID-19. This dissertation examines the effects the COVID-19 pandemic had on nursing students as education was disrupted just prior…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Critical Thinking, Novices, Nurses
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Galiya Ldokova; Svetlana Frumina; Suad Abdalkareem Alwaely – Smart Learning Environments, 2025
The aim of the study is to examine the influence of students' psychotypes on their learning using digital educational technologies within the Metaverse. In the course of the longitudinal experimental study, the results of the initial testing of 79 students during their undergraduate studies and the re-testing of 75 of these students during their…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, Psychological Characteristics, Brain
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Warrick, Andrew; Woodward, Heather – Research-publishing.net, 2021
In this preliminary research study, Japanese university students created two dimensional (2D) interactive posters and 360° Virtual Reality (VR) presentations using Thinglink software. Students can use Thinglink software to annotate images with photos, videos, and descriptions. Researchers explore the extent to which students believed that creating…
Descriptors: Visual Aids, 21st Century Skills, Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills
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Mirzaei, Maryam Sadat; Zhang, Qiang; Meshgi, Kourosh; Nishida, Toyoaki – Research-publishing.net, 2019
We developed a story creation platform that allows for collaborative content creation in a 3D environment by utilizing avatars, animations, objects, and backgrounds. Our story envisioning platform provides a shared virtual space that promotes collaborative interaction for story construction, involving a high degree of learner input and control. It…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Computer Simulation, Story Telling, Second Language Learning
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Wen, Yun, Ed.; Wu, Yi-ju, Ed.; Qi, Grace, Ed.; Guo, Siao-Cing, Ed.; Spector, J. Michael, Ed.; Chelliah, Shobhana, Ed.; Kinshuk, Ed.; Lan, Yu-Ju, Ed. – Lecture Notes in Educational Technology, 2021
This book uncovers the important issues in language learning and teaching in the intelligent, digital era. "Social connectivity" is a contemporary style of learning and living. By engaging in the connectivity of physical and digital worlds, how essential parts of language learning and teaching can be achieved? How can the advanced…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Information Technology
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Sánchez, Inmaculada Arnedillo, Ed.; Isaias, Pedro, Ed.; Ravesteijn, Pascal, Ed.; Ongena, Guido, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2019
These proceedings contain the papers and posters of the 15th International Conference on Mobile Learning 2019, which was organised by the International Association for Development of the Information Society and co-organised by the University of Applied Sciences, in Utrecht, The Netherlands, April 11-13, 2019. The Mobile Learning 2019 Conference…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Educational Research, Learning Analytics, Internet
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Baum, Liesl M.; Newbill, Phyllis Leary – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2010
The role of critical and creative thinking has been debated within the field of instructional design. Through an instructional design and development project we have identified how critical and creative thinking are essential to the instructional design process. This paper highlights a recent project focused on a virtual Native American village…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, American Indians, Instructional Materials, Creative Thinking
Wlodyga, Linda J. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
In an attempt to prepare new graduate nurses to meet the demands of health care delivery systems, the use of computer-based clinical information systems that combine hands-on experience with computer based information systems was explored. Since the introduction of Electronic Medical Records (EMR) nearly two decades ago, the demand for nurses to…
Descriptors: Nursing Students, Nursing Education, Homework, Nursing
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Jacobson, Astrid R.; Militello, Roberta; Baveye, Philippe C. – Computers & Education, 2009
Multidisciplinary courses are being developed at a number of US colleges and universities to highlight the connections between the rise or fall of world civilizations and the sustainable or unsustainable uses of soil and water resources. The content presented in these courses is complex because it includes concepts from disciplines as varied as…
Descriptors: Environmental Influences, Interdisciplinary Approach, Educational Objectives, College Instruction
Langholz, Judith; Smaldino, Sharon E. – 1989
This study focuses on the effectiveness of "Solutions Unlimited," a computer software program developed to teach problem solving to middle level students. Fifty-one fourth, fifth, and sixth graders (21 girls and 30 boys) attending a private school in a small mid-west community were the subjects for this experiment; none had received…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Simulation, Computer Software, Critical Thinking
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Astleitner, Herman – Journal of Instructional Psychology, 2002
Considers whether critical thinking can be trained with computer-based instruction. Reviews literature on the effects of cognitive tools, collaborative computer-supported environments, computer simulations, and logic software on critical thinking, and reports on two experimental studies at the University of Erfurt that instructed undergraduates in…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Simulation, Courseware, Critical Thinking
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Wilhelm, Jennifer Anne; Confrey, Jere – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2003
This paper reports a study designed to probe the abstraction ability that US Algebra I students can achieve in moving the concepts rate of change and accumulation between motion and money contexts. The Algebra I students used the technologies motion detectors and Interactive Banking software during a replacement unit focused on slope, ratio, and…
Descriptors: Motion, Algebra, Calculus, Graphing Calculators
Sadow, Jeffrey D.; And Others – Political Science Teacher, 1989
Describes a computer simulation for teaching diplomacy that has been used at the University of New Orleans (Louisiana). The program enables students to examine the interaction of war with diplomacy by addressing the subject both historically and socio-psychologically. Discusses the results and makes recommendations for modifications. (KO)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Oriented Programs
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Lajoie, Susanne P.; Lavigne, Nancy C.; Guerrera, Claudia; Munsie, Steven D. – Instructional Science, 2001
BioWorld is a computer-based environment for the high school biology curriculum that provides a hospital simulation where students can apply what they have learned to solve problems about diseases. Analyses of student actions and verbal dialogue were conducted to pinpoint within BioWorld that were most conducive to learning and scientific…
Descriptors: Biology, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Simulation, Critical Thinking
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Dunn, David – History Microcomputer Review, 1990
Evaluates the suitability of commercially produced historical simulation software for college-level history instruction. Provides a software evaluation template. Sees gains at all levels in constructing sequence structures for teaching cause and effect. Recommends that future designers create simulation exercises dedicated to the methodological…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Simulation, Computer Software Evaluation, Computer Software Selection
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