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Alexandra Aster; Matthias Carl Laupichler; Saskia Zimmer; Tobias Raupach – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2024
Serious games, as a learning resource, enhance their game character by embedding game design elements that are typically used in entertainment games. Serious games in its entirety have already proven their teaching effectiveness in different educational contexts including medical education. The embedded game design elements play an essential role…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Computer System Design, Health Services, Medical Services
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Kynigos, Chronis; Grizioti, Marianthi – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2020
Although there is wide rhetoric that programming should be learnt by all as an element of computational thinking (CT), in practice, it is mostly implemented narrowly as an end in itself consisting of routine practice and traditional testing of the ability to code. This paper discusses a way in which programming could be seen through a wider…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Thinking Skills, Computation, Affordances
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Es-Sajjade, Abdelghani; Paas, Fred – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2020
Although educational games have been used for a considerable time, their true potential for enhancing achievement and motivation is still being explored. We argue in this paper that we may get closer to realizing this potential if the theoretical underpinning of educational games is improved. We developed a simple interactive math game based on…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Educational Games, Computer Games, Computer System Design
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Donna Rennar-Potacco; Anymir Orellana; Rita Ramirez-Levine – International Journal of Designs for Learning, 2020
This design case describes design decisions and their impacts during three redesigns of an educational game called the "Rocks and Minerals Challenge." This game was developed as a laboratory supplement for the rocks and minerals component of a university-based geology course. The game has evolved through three distinct design phases:…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Educational Games, Geology, College Science
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An, Brian; Brown, Donald; Guerlain, Stephanie – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2019
Despite the growth in the use of serious games to train and evaluate cross-cultural competence, few studies have examined the content and dialogue development methods associated with these training systems. This study presents a framework for generating content for serious games targeting culturally appropriate communication and an evaluation of a…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Game Based Learning, Intercultural Communication, Cultural Awareness
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Debabi, Wassila; Champagnat, Ronan – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2017
Serious games seem to be a promising alternative to traditional practices for learning. Recently, their use in computer science education and learning programming became more widespread. Actually, many students in programming courses have difficulties to master all required competencies and skills especially at introductory level and games have…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Educational Games, Computer System Design, Computer Science Education
Shaughnessy, Michael F. – Educational Technology, 2014
In this article, Michael F. Shaughnessy, Contributing Editor of this journal, interviews David Dockterman, Chief Architect, Learning Sciences, at Scholastic Education, where he provides guidance on turning research into practical programs. Dockterman was one of the founders of Tom Snyder Productions, a leading educational software developer and…
Descriptors: Interviews, Computer System Design, Computer Software, Computer Simulation
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Sanford, Kathy; Starr, Lisa J.; Merkel, Liz; Bonsor Kurki, Sarah – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2015
As video games become a ubiquitous part of today's culture internationally, as educators and parents we need to turn our attention to how video games are being understood and used in informal and formal settings. Serious games have developed as a genre of video games marketed for educating youth about a range of world issues. At face value this…
Descriptors: Video Games, Critical Viewing, Popular Culture, Adolescent Attitudes
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Niemeyer, Dodie J.; Gerber, Hannah R. – Educational Media International, 2015
Collaborative learning environments found with gaming communities can provide excellent structures to study the way that learners act within informal learning environments. For example, many of these gaming communities encourage gamers to create videogames and virtual world walkthroughs and commentaries. Walkthroughs and commentaries provide…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Educational Games, Computer Games, Communities of Practice
Snow, Erica L. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2015
Intelligent tutoring systems are adaptive learning environments designed to support individualized instruction. The adaptation embedded within these systems is often guided by user models that represent one or more aspects of students' domain knowledge, actions, or performance. The proposed project focuses on the development and testing of user…
Descriptors: Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Models, Individualized Instruction, Needs Assessment
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Al Sarhan, Khaled Ali; AlZboon, Saleem Odeh; Olimat, Khalaf Mufleh; Al-Zboon, Mohammad Saleem – Education, 2013
The study aims at introducing the features of the computerized educational games in sciences at the elementary school in Jordan according to the specialists in teaching science and computer subjects, through answering some questions such as: What are the features of the computerized educational games in sciences at the elementary schools in Jordan…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Games, Educational Games, Elementary School Science
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Moore, David Richard – International Journal of Game-Based Learning, 2012
This study suggests that conceptualization is the primary activity of arcade-style gameplay. Arcade-style game play is primarily a function of presenting concepts to players and continually requiring them to react with finer responses. The degree to which a concept is malleable determines how large its range is in gameplay. In other words, the…
Descriptors: Concept Teaching, Educational Games, Play, Game Theory
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Muñoz González, Juan Manuel; Rubio García, Sebastián; Cruz Pichardo, Ivanovna M. – Digital Education Review, 2015
At the present time, the use of video games goes beyond mere amusement or entertainment due to its potential for developing capacities, dexterity and skills. Thus, video games have extended to environments like that of education, serving as didactic resources within dynamics that respond to the interests and necessities of the 21st century…
Descriptors: Video Games, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Cooperative Learning
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Schofield, Damian – Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, 2014
Advanced three-dimensional virtual environment technology, similar to that used by the film and computer games industry, can allow educational developers to rapidly create realistic online vir-tual environments. This technology has been used to generate a range of interactive Virtual Real-ity (VR) learning environments across a spectrum of…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Games, Engineering Technology, Virtual Classrooms
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Hsu, Yu-Chang; Ching, Yu-Hui – Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2015
Mobile learning has become increasingly popular in the past decade due to the unprecedented technological affordances achieved through the advancement of mobile computing, which makes ubiquitous and situated learning possible. At the same time, there have been research and implementation projects whose efforts centered on developing mobile…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Instructional Design, Classification, Models
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