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Lawlor, John; Marshall, Kevin; Tangney, Brendan – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2016
It is generally accepted that intrinsic student motivation is a critical requirement for effective learning but formal learning in school places a huge reliance on extrinsic motivation to focus the learner. This reliance on extrinsic motivation is driven by the pressure on formal schooling to "deliver to the test." The experience of the…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Computer Uses in Education, Program Effectiveness, Secondary School Students
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Rosselló, Maria; Pinya, Carme – Digital Education Review, 2017
Advances in information and communication technologies, and the introduction of competency-based educational approaches promoted as a result of the participation of universities in the construction of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) are demanding urgent changes in teaching methodologies and in the role of students. In this context the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Electronic Publishing, Web Sites, Diaries
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Wu, Min Lun; Richards, Kari; Saw, Guan Kung – Computers in the Schools, 2014
A concurrent triangulation mixed-method research design was used to investigate 19 casual gamers' or non-gamers' use of a popular massive multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), Everquest 2, as an alternative pedagogical tool to support communicative use of the English language. This study poses that MMORPGs could serve as a virtually rich…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mixed Methods Research, Computer Games, Educational Games