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Fernando Almeida; Zoltan Buzady – Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2024
This study explores the contribution of serious game teaching technology, such as FLIGBY, to the development of entrepreneurial learning outcomes in the context of an entrepreneurship course in higher education. The sample is composed of 551 students through the construction of a randomized pretest-posttest control group. A quantitative…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Outcomes of Education, Comparative Analysis, Game Based Learning
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Hong, Jon-Chao; Tai, Kai-Hsin; Luo, Wan-Lun; Sher, Yung-Ji; Kao, Yi-Wen – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2022
Background: Many gamification applications (apps) have been designed to motivate students to learn particular content. Based on the brain activation approach, the present study adapted an app, named Shaking-On, which requires students to shake their mobile devices to send their answers to multiple-choice questions to the teacher. Students then…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Games, Computer Software, Telecommunications
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Lo-An Liu; Gwo-Jen Hwang – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2024
Learning with digital games has gained considerable popularity. While digital game-based learning has the potential to improve learners' language learning achievement, engagement and motivation, there still exists a gap when it comes to providing effective feedback to learners within these games. Conventional digital games generally provide…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Error Correction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Wang, Jing; Song, Baomei – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2023
To motivate learners to engage in writing courses and help to improve their writing performance, a mobile-game-based collaborative prewriting approach was proposed in this study. A quasi-experiment was implemented by recruiting two classes of non-English major students from a university in northeastern China. Class 1 learned to write under the…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Collaborative Writing, Prewriting, Foreign Countries
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Chu, Shih-Ting; Hwang, Gwo-Jen; Chien, Shu-Yun; Chang, Shao-Chen – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2023
In recent years, several studies have reported the potential of employing digital games in EFL (English as Foreign Language) courses to promote students' learning motivation. However, scholars have pointed out that students generally lack self-learning ability, which is the key to the success of learning a foreign language. Therefore, it is…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Computer Games
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Ali Soyoof; Barry Lee Reynolds; Rustam Shadiev; Boris Vazquez-Calvo – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2024
While the study of serious games has received due attention, few studies have investigated their potentials of simultaneously offering a route to both content and language acquisition. Understanding the interdisciplinary educational affordance of serious game play is significant, as it might provide game designers and teachers with insight into…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Games, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Özdener, Nesrin; Demirci, Fatih – Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2019
The use of mobile applications which are developed for smartphones and tablets is increasing. They use special features of the devices such as integrated cameras, geopositioning, and location and orientation sensors. The purpose of this study is to examine students' opinions on using an educational mobile application which is supported by sensors…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Student Attitudes, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices
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Waddington, Julie; Bannikova Charikova, Daria – ELT Journal, 2022
At a time marked by the increasing use of technology in education, the study presented in this paper explores and compares teachers' and children's views on the use of digital games in class. A case study is presented in a primary school setting where tablets have been fully integrated into the EFL classroom. A mixed-method approach was used to…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Student Centered Learning, Second Language Learning
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Muntrikaeo, Kuntida; Poonpon, Kornwipa – English Language Teaching, 2022
The purposes of this study were to investigate the effects of task-based instruction using online language games in a flipped learning environment (TGF) in developing the English oral communication ability of Thai secondary students and examine the students' opinions of the task-based instruction using online language games in a flipped learning…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Yong, Su-Ting; Karjanto, Natanael; Gates, Peter; Chan, Tak-Yee Andy; Khin, Than-Myint – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2021
This study explored the gaming principles that fitted well in the theory of learning in good computer games and attempted to incorporate those principles into mathematics education. A qualitative dominant mixed methods approach was employed, in which qualitative interviews [eight students, six teachers and eight parents] and quantitative surveys…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Mathematics Instruction, Feedback (Response), Learning Theories
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Alhebshi, Amal Abdullah; Gamlo, Nada – Arab World English Journal, 2022
Mastering vocabulary can be a challenge as a great deal of information is delivered in intensive English courses. This study investigates the effects of mobile games on EFL students' vocabulary acquisition via the "Quizizz" application. A total of 56 female foundation year students from a Saudi Arabian university participated in this…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Computer Assisted Instruction, Intensive Language Courses, Second Language Learning
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Dredge, Rebecca; Chen, Shuang – Psychology in the Schools, 2020
Little is known about the social media use of online gamers compared with nongamers and whether the two forms of technology use manifest as the cumulative risk for relational and well-being outcomes in adolescents. Self-report data from 320 Chinese secondary school students (12-17 years) was collected for online gaming and social media use…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Computer Mediated Communication, Well Being, Social Media
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Yallihep, Mirac; Kutlu, Birgul – Education and Information Technologies, 2020
The purpose of this study was to measure the impacts of mobile serious games on fifth grade students' attitudes towards "Information Technology and Software" course and understanding of programming concepts. For this purpose, a five weeks long study was conducted in a private primary school in Turkey with randomly selected 36 fifth grade…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Computer Software, Student Attitudes, Programming
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Cheng, Ching-Hsue; Chen, Chung-Hsi – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2022
Many scholars have highlighted the importance of motivation and anxiety in language learning. They have also indicated the advantages of integrating learning content into a mobile-assisted English learning system environment. Meanwhile, a few studies have explored the impacts of a mobile-assisted English learning system on the motivation and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Student Attitudes
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Gutica, Mirela; Petrina, Stephen – International Journal of Game-Based Learning, 2021
Evaluating the subjective playing experience and engagement in learning is important in the design of advanced learning technologies (ALTs) that respond to the learners' cognitive and emotional states. This article addresses students' attitudes toward an educational game, Heroes of Math Island, and their responses to the emotional agent, an…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Mathematics Instruction, Student Attitudes, Grade 6
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