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Sam von Gillern; Brady Nash – Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2025
This scoping review examines scholarship on video games in prominent literacy journals between years 2000 and 2020. 32 articles met inclusion criteria for the study, including 15 articles on entertainment games and 17 articles on serious/educational games. Included articles were categorized by various attributes, including year of publication,…
Descriptors: Video Games, Educational Games, Literacy Education, Instructional Effectiveness
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El Mawas, Nour; Tal, Irina; Moldovan, Arghir-Nicolae; Bogusevschi, Diana; Andrews, Josephine; Muntean, Gabriel-Miro; Muntean, Cristina Hava – Knowledge Management & E-Learning, 2020
Teachers face many difficulties in the motivation, engagement, and improvement of learning outcomes for students in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). In this paper, we present a research study on the learning experience of a new interactive educational 3D video game called Final Frontier, designed for primary school…
Descriptors: Astronomy, Educational Games, Game Based Learning, Instructional Effectiveness
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Shewmake, Cole J.; Merrie, Michael D.; Calleja, Paul – Physical Educator, 2015
Literature indicates that technology, including exergaming, is popular among adolescents and can be used as a supplemental tool in the physical education classroom. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine third and fourth grade students' perceived enjoyment and exertion levels toward exergaming in relation to traditional physical…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Video Games, Supplementary Education, Elementary School Students
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Clark, Douglas B.; Tanner-Smith, Emily; Hostetler, Andrew; Fradkin, Aryah; Polikov, Vadim – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2018
Much research focuses on what might be possible with digital games in the classroom. This study focuses on what is currently probable and typical. It uses a controlled quasi-experimental design to compare outcomes for students of 13 teachers in 10 diverse urban, suburban, and rural schools. The teachers integrated a set of 55 typical educational…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational Games, Video Games, Quasiexperimental Design
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Gresalfi, Melissa Sommerfeld – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2013
This paper details a framework for evaluating the potential of particular forms of technology for supporting student engagement with mathematics. I propose that, focusing on the strength of affordances to engage in particular ways allows us to begin to build an analytic frame that serves two purposes: (1) to begin to document learning as an…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Technology Uses in Education, Technology Integration, Learner Engagement
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Doerr-Stevens, Candance – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2011
This article discusses how prolonged participation and digital composition online intersect to forge material extensions of the physical body, or limbs beyond the skin. Based on postmodern theories of technology and the body, I argue that these limbs, while less tangible, merit serious consideration given their potential to engender physical…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Human Body, Theories, Role Playing
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Sampson, Demetrios G., Ed.; Ifenthaler, Dirk, Ed.; Isaías, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2018
The aim of the 2018 International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age (CELDA) conference was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There have been advances in both cognitive…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Teaching Methods, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Simonson, Michael, Ed. – Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 2014
For the thirty-seventh year, the Research and Theory Division and the Division of Instructional Design of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) sponsored the publication of these Proceedings. Papers published in this volume were presented at the annual AECT Convention in Jacksonville, Florida. This year's Proceedings…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Web Sites, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
National Academy for Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (NJ1), 2011
This volume presents 64 abstracts of keynote and parallel paper presentations of the Irish National Academy for Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning's (NAIRTL) conference on the theme of flexible learning. The Flexible Learning conference was a joint initiative by NAIRTL and the Learning Innovation Network. The keynote presentations can…
Descriptors: Open Education, Foreign Countries, Information Technology, Educational Technology