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Ilana Dubovi; Idit Adler – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
Computer-based simulations are highly effective in supporting students' deep conceptual understanding of scientific ideas. However, in the unprecedented era of the COVID-19 outbreak, students around the world experienced an induced state anxiety, which may have affected their engagement with the learning environments and ultimately their academic…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Anxiety, Learner Engagement
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Reinking, Anni – Current Issues in Education, 2021
As one of the hardest professions, teaching can lead to burnout, stress, and other physical and emotional reactions throughout one's professional life. However, implementing the innovative practice of training teachers in virtual learning environments can reduce stress and increase the success of the teacher workforce. Therefore, in this study,…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Faculty Development, Anxiety
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Mariusz Kruk – Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2021
This book focuses on the dynamic relationships among individual difference (ID) variables (i.e., willingness to communicate, motivation, language anxiety and boredom) in learning English as a foreign language in the virtual world Second Life. The theoretical part provides an overview of selected issues related to the four ID factors in question…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Electronic Learning, Computer Simulation
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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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Kruk, Mariusz – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2022
The first part of the paper offers the characteristics of the affective variables of willingness to communicate, motivation, language anxiety and boredom as located within the framework of the complex dynamic systems. The second part aims to discuss the results of a study intended to examine the effect of "Second Life" on two English…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Communication (Thought Transfer), Student Motivation, Attention Control
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Liew, Tze Wei; Tan, Su-Mae; Jayothisa, Chandrika – Educational Technology & Society, 2013
The present study examined the impact of peer-like and expert-like agent stereotypes, as operationalized by agent's image and voice, on learners' agent perceptions, task-related attitudes, and learning achievement. 56 university freshmen (23 males and 33 females) interacted with either the peer-like agent (female college student) or the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, Student Attitudes, Academic Achievement
Abal, Abdulaziz – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The population of English Language Learners (ELLs) globally has been increasing substantially every year. In the United States alone, adult ELLs are the fastest growing portion of learners in adult education programs (Yang, 2005). There is a significant need to improve the teaching of English to ELLs in the United States and other English-speaking…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Adult Education, Virtual Classrooms, Computer Simulation
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Murai, Koji; Wakida, Shin-Ichi; Miyado, Takashi; Fukushi, Keiichi; Hayashi, Yuji; Stone, Laurie C. – Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 2009
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to propose that the measurement of salivary amylase activity is an effective index to evaluate the stress of a ship navigator for safe navigation training and education. Design/methodology/approach: Evaluation comes from the simulator and actual on-board experiments. The subjects are real captains who have…
Descriptors: Metabolism, Marine Education, Measurement Techniques, Administrators