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Hans G. K. Hummel; Aad Slootmaker; Jeroen Storm – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
Entrepreneurship is crucial for economic growth and employment, but conventional didactical approaches appear ineffective. Effective approaches should include experiential learning from real problems. The serious game under study was developed in the context of entrepreneurship training for construction workers (at European Quality Framework…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Entrepreneurship, Construction Industry, Instructional Design
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Sun, Lihui; Guo, Zhen; Hu, Linlin – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
The cultivation of computational thinking (CT) skills is a key issue in talent cultivation today. This study reported a meta-analysis of 22 empirical studies to determine the effectiveness of using educational games to improve students' CT skills and the influence of various factors in instructional design on acquiring CT skills. The results…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Computation, Thinking Skills, Literature Reviews
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Li Ye; Xueyan Zhou; Simin Yang; Yongxin Hang – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
Traditional pattern teaching is an essential part of cultivating artistic quality, which is confronted with cognitive and motivational problems of teenagers. As a teaching strategy, schema theory attaches importance to the students' knowledge construction, which can reduce the cognitive difficulties caused by the increase of knowledge difficulty.…
Descriptors: Schemata (Cognition), Multimedia Materials, Educational Games, Instructional Design
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Wang, Annie; Thompson, Meredith; Roy, Dan; Pan, Katharine; Perry, Judy; Tan, Philip; Eberhart, Rik; Klopfer, Eric – Interactive Learning Environments, 2022
This study focuses on an educational game titled "Cellverse," a two-player cross-platform VR project intended to teach high school biology students about cell structure and function. In "Cellverse," players work in pairs to explore a human lung cell and diagnose and treat a dangerous genetic disorder. "Cellverse" is…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Computer Games, Computer Simulation, Instructional Design
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Shian-Shyong Tseng; Tsung-Yu Yang; Wen-Chung Shih; Bo-Yang Shan – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
In this paper, to handle the problem of the quick evolution of cyber-security attacks, we developed the iMonsters board game and proposed the attack and defense knowledge self-evolving algorithm. Three versions of the iMonsters were launched in 2013, 2017, and 2019, respectively. Accordingly, the cyber-security ontology can be refined by the…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Computer Security, Computer Science Education, Game Based Learning
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Liu, Min; Li, Chenglu; Pan, Zilong; Pan, Xin – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
More research is needed on how to best use analytics to support educational decisions and design effective learning environments. This study was to explore and mine the data captured by a digital educational game designed for middle school science to understand learners' behavioral patterns in using the game, and to use evidence-based findings to…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Educational Games, Instructional Design, Instructional Effectiveness
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Yildirim, Ibrahim; Sen, Sedat – Interactive Learning Environments, 2021
Whether gamification is an organized structure that contributes to student achievement, a simple pontification process or total nonsense is a matter of debate. In such, this study was conducted to provide a scientific answer while exhibiting the gamification effect on student achievement with the meta-analysis method, which is based on…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Academic Achievement, Meta Analysis, Effect Size
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Yang, Kai-Hsiang – Interactive Learning Environments, 2017
It is widely accepted that the digital game-based learning approach has the advantage of stimulating students' learning motivation, but simply using digital games in the classroom does not guarantee satisfactory learning achievement, especially in the case of the absence of a teacher. Integrating appropriate learning strategies into a game can…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Electronic Learning, Mastery Learning, Learning Theories
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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
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Hsieh, Ya-Hui; Lin, Yi-Chun; Hou, Huei-Tse – Interactive Learning Environments, 2016
Well-designed game-based learning can provide students with an innovative environment that may enhance students' motivation and engagement in learning and thus improve their learning performance. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships among elementary school students' flow experience and learning performances. We also…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Educational Games, Learning Processes
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Hong, Jon-Chao; Hwang, Ming-Yueh; Wu, Nien-Chen; Huang, Ying-Luan; Lin, Pei-Hsin; Chen, Yi-Ling – Interactive Learning Environments, 2016
A new approach to moral education using blended learning has been developed. This approach involves 10 scenarios that are designed as a web-based game and serves as a basis for group moral-consequence-based reasoning, which is developed based on a hypothetical-deductive model. The aim of the study was to examine the changes in students' blended…
Descriptors: Ethical Instruction, Moral Development, Educational Games, Blended Learning
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Tsai, Fu-Hsing; Kinzer, Charles; Hung, Kuo-Hsun; Chen, Cheng-Ling Alice; Hsu, I-Ying – Interactive Learning Environments, 2013
While most current educational simulation games provide learners with gameplay experience to motivate learning, there is often a lack of focus on ensuring that the desired content knowledge is actually learned. Students may focus on completing game activities without learning the targeted content knowledge, thus negating the desired learning…
Descriptors: Simulation, Educational Games, Learning Motivation, Instructional Design
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Hong, Jon-Chao; Hwang, Ming-Yueh; Lu, Chin-Hsieh; Cheng, Ching-Ling; Lee, Yu-Chen; Lin, Chan-Li – Interactive Learning Environments, 2009
Playfulness steering is an emerging approach in educational game design and play. The integration of arithmetical computation, game strategy, and teamwork into one game allows players to interactively "steer" the playfulness and enhance learning. In this paper an evolutionary contest game was designed and implemented to examine the…
Descriptors: Play, Educational Games, Action Research, Focus Groups