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Direct linkKai-Lin Yang; Chia-Yang Chen – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
Game-based learning, which includes non-digital and digital games, highlights the benefits of games in terms of players' learning and engagement. Whereas contemporary research focuses more on digital than non-digital game-based learning, more studies shall compare the effects between the two types of game-based learning and their integration. This…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Computer Games, Spatial Ability, Grade 5
Hwang, Gwo-Jen; Lin, Yu-Chun; Lin, Hui-Chen – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2023
In conventional digital game-based learning, geographic maps are generally used to provide students with the whole picture of the gaming contexts, while the concepts to be learned are separately presented as individual gaming objects. Scholars have indicated the problems of such a gaming content design, in which students could encounter…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Concept Mapping, Computer Games, Game Based Learning
Melián Díaz, Dámari; Saorín, José Luis; Carbonell-Carrera, Carlos; de la Torre Cantero, Jorge – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2020
The relationship between two-dimensional elements and three-dimensional objects is an abstract process which generates difficulty for learning. This ability can be improved with exercises designed to improve spatial abilities. Many of those exercises aim at offering a single solution with the result that they are not the most suitable for…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Workshops, Creativity, Spatial Ability
Eadaoin J. Slattery; Paula Lehane; Deirdre Butler; Michael O'Leary; Kevin Marshall – Review of Education, 2025
Minecraft is a popular digital game-based learning (DGBL) tool used in learning environments around the world. With increasing emphasis on evidence-informed practice and policymaking in educational systems, this paper systematically reviews the evidence base behind the use of Minecraft in improving academic, cognitive, motivational-affective and…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Computer Games, Educational Games, Children
Download full textSütçü, Nese Dokumaci – Participatory Educational Research, 2021
In this study it was aimed to determine the effect of geometrical-mechanical intelligence games activities that are conducted with concrete materials and in computer environment on the spatial visualization and mental rotation skills of prospective teachers and to examine the opinions of prospective teachers about the activities. The research was…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Computer Games, Manipulative Materials, Geometric Concepts
Adanali, Rukiye – Review of International Geographical Education, 2021
Knowledge of geography is one of the main elements in solving problems such as urbanization, socio-economic inequalities, disease, migration, natural disasters. It is also seen that importance is given to the acquisition of geographical skills in educational programs. The spatial thinking skill that provides geospatial information is a geographic…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Computer Games, Game Based Learning, Geographic Information Systems
