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Direct linkMatthew Caratachea; W. Monty Jones – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2024
The emergence of immersive VR technology in K-12 educational spaces has created a need for research examining the affordances and constraints of this technology for student learning. The current study uses a case-study methodology to illustrate K-12 secondary science teachers' perceived affordances and constraints of using immersive VR tools to…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Science Teachers, Affordances, Computer Simulation
Guo, Yu – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Economic inequality has reached historically high levels in both the United States and in the world. The research literature in sociology and political science has long shown that individuals tend to be very persistent in their views on the determinants of economic success, although these views may be formed on cultural and cognitive biases. For…
Descriptors: Affordances, Instructional Effectiveness, Computer Simulation, Role Playing
Ritz, Leah T.; Buss, Alan R. – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2016
Increasing availability of immersive virtual reality (IVR) systems, such as the Cave Automatic Virtual Environment (CAVE) and head-mounted displays, for use in education contexts is providing new opportunities and challenges for instructional designers. By highlighting the affordances of IVR specific to the CAVE, the authors emphasize the…
Descriptors: Models, Alignment (Education), Instructional Design, Affordances
Branch, Robert Maribe, Ed.; Lee, Hyewon, Ed.; Tseng, Sheng Shiang, Ed. – Educational Media and Technology Yearbook, 2019
This is Volume 42 of the "Educational Media and Technology Yearbook." For the past 40 years, the Yearbook has contributed to the field of Educational Technology in presenting contemporary topics, ideas, and developments regarding diverse technology tools for educational purposes. This Yearbook has inspired researchers, practitioners, and…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Computer Simulation, Technology Integration
Pellas, Nikolaos; Kazanidis, Ioannis; Konstantinou, Nikolaos; Georgiou, Georgia – Education and Information Technologies, 2017
The present literature review builds on the results of 50 research articles published from 2000 until 2016. All these studies have successfully accomplished various learning tasks in the domain of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education using three-dimensional (3-D) multi-user virtual worlds for Primary, Secondary and…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Computer Simulation, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Pellas, Nikolaos – Interactive Learning Environments, 2017
The combination of Open Sim and Scratch4OS can be a worthwhile innovation for introductory programming courses, using a Community of Inquiry (CoI) model as a theoretical instructional design framework. This empirical study had a threefold purpose to present: (a) an instructional design framework for the beneficial formalization of a virtual…
Descriptors: Educational Indicators, Communities of Practice, Computer Simulation, High School Students
Arora, Payal; Itu, Sorina – International Journal of Game-Based Learning, 2012
The battle between educators and entertainers continues when it comes to gaming. While this is so, the edutainment battleground has expanded to include actors outside formal schooling agencies, namely International Non-Governmental Organizations (INGOs). These actors employ digital games with the aim to educate and activate towards specific social…
Descriptors: Activism, Educational Games, International Organizations, Nongovernmental Organizations
Black, Rebecca W.; Reich, Stephanie M. – International Journal of Game-Based Learning, 2011
In recent years there has been a marked increase in the number of virtual worlds aimed at populations between the ages of 6 to14 years. This article examines the content and design of one such site, Webkinz World, as a sociocultural context for informal learning. Focusing on the design and activities of this site sheds light on the ways in which…
Descriptors: Affordances, Barriers, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Educational Games
Download full textSánchez, Inmaculada Arnedillo, Ed.; Isaías, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2016
These proceedings contain the papers of the 12th International Conference on Mobile Learning 2016, which was organized by the International Association for Development of the Information Society, in Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal, April 9-11, 2016. The Mobile Learning 2016 Conference seeks to provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Conferences (Gatherings), Conference Papers, Telecommunications
