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Egea-Vivancos, Alejandro; Arias-Ferrer, Laura – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2021
The extension of technology in current society has encouraged teachers to introduce products based on VR and IVR in their classrooms, especially video games. In this paper the specific role of video games in cultural heritage and history teaching is analyzed. Moreover, the results of recent research on the application of video games in Secondary…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Instructional Design, Educational Games, Video Games
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Fassbender, Eric; Richards, Deborah; Bilgin, Ayse; Thompson, William Forde; Heiden, Wolfgang – Computers & Education, 2012
Game technology has been widely used for educational applications, however, despite the common use of background music in games, its effect on learning has been largely unexplored. This paper discusses how music played in the background of a computer-animated history lesson affected participants' memory for facts. A virtual history lesson was…
Descriptors: Music, Familiarity, Recall (Psychology), History Instruction
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Allison, John – Learning, Media and Technology, 2008
This paper will undertake a critical review of the impact of virtual reality tools on the teaching of history. Virtual reality is useful in several different ways. History educators, elementary and secondary school teachers and professors, can all profit from the digital environment. Challenges arise quickly however. Virtual reality technologies…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Secondary School Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, College Faculty