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Sunny Kwok; Rachel Childers – Biomedical Engineering Education, 2023
Commercial escape rooms have grown in popularity as an enjoyable experience that also doubles as an exercise in communication and collaboration. Educators can take advantage of these natural qualities to engage and support students in a low-stress learning environment. The primary goal of this study is to share the development and application of…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Biomedicine, Engineering, Program Development
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Su, Jun-Ming; Yang, Yi-Ching; Weng, Tzu-Nin; Li, Meng-Jhen; Wang, Chi-Jane – Comunicar: Media Education Research Journal, 2021
The number of new COVID-19 cases continues to rise rapidly in many countries despite vaccination. The best way to counter the spread of COVID-19 is self-protection. This study documents the development of a web-based serious game (WSG-COVID-19.SP) to promote effective learning strategies for self-protection against COVID-19 and to test the game's…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Educational Games, Health Behavior
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Nicholas Glover; Kerry J. Knox; Ben Kirman; Matthew Topham; Katylily Westbury-Hawkins; Penelope Holland – International Journal for Students as Partners, 2020
We describe the production of an educational game ("Catastrophic") for supporting biology learning in higher education (HE) that was developed through a partnership between students and academic staff. We consider the ways in which the development project intersects with the use of game-based learning in HE and with Students as Partners…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Biology, Science Instruction, Teacher Student Relationship
Ajlen, Ronit; Plummer, Benjamin; Straub, Evan; Zhu, Erping – Center for Research on Learning and Teaching, 2020
Gameful pedagogy is "an approach that takes inspiration from well-designed games to create learning environments that support student motivation" (Holman, 2018, p. 1). According to Self-Determination Theory (Ryan & Deci, 2000), students are intrinsically motivated when their basic psychological needs for autonomy (the need to make…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Game Based Learning, Educational Games, Student Motivation
McCarthy, Kathryn S.; Watanabe, Micah; McNamara, Danielle S. – Grantee Submission, 2020
The Design Implementation Framework, or DIF, is a design approach that evaluates learner and user experience at multiple points in the development of intelligent tutoring systems. In this chapter, we explore how DIF was used to make system modifications to iSTART, a game-based intelligent tutoring system for reading comprehension. Using DIF as a…
Descriptors: Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Reading Comprehension, Educational Games, Program Development
Walkington, Candace – Grantee Submission, 2020
This paper responds to a 2016 systematic literature review of the research on learning games by Ke (2016). The review paper unpacked the idea of intrinsic integration in learning games, analyzing important emergent themes. The key ideas and the value of this review are discussed in the context of the recent shift to virtual instruction. The…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Teaching Methods, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education