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Ackerman, Lyn Kajiwara – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Video games are a growing multi-billion dollar industry. Pew Internet & American Life Project (2008) reported that 97 percent of teens ages 12 to 17 years play computer, web, portable, or console games. Of the various genres that were reported, 36 percent of teens played role playing games and 21 percent played massively multiplayer online…
Descriptors: Video Games, Computer Games, Adolescents, Mixed Methods Research
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Annansingh, Fenio; Veli, Thomas – Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 2016
Purpose: This paper aims to investigate children interaction in cyberspace and their use of Web 2.0 technologies. It sought their perception of internet risks as well as their knowledge and experience with electronic safety (e-safety) measures. It also considered parents', teachers' and other stakeholders' perception of internet risks, e-safety…
Descriptors: Internet, Child Safety, Web 2.0 Technologies, Attitude Measures
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Voulgari, Iro; Komis, Vassilis; Sampson, Demetrios G. – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2014
Over the past decade research has recognised the learning potential of massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs). MMOGs can be used by the technology-enhanced learning research community to study and identify good educational practices that may inspire engaging, creative and motivating approaches for education and learning. To this end, in this…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Educational Technology, Teaching Methods, Student Attitudes
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Bressler, D. M.; Bodzin, A. M. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2013
Current studies have reported that secondary students are highly engaged while playing mobile augmented reality (AR) learning games. Some researchers have posited that players' engagement may indicate a flow experience, but no research results have confirmed this hypothesis with vision-based AR learning games. This study investigated factors…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Affective Behavior, Learner Engagement, Secondary School Students
McGill, Monica M. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Digital games are marketed, mass-produced, and consumed by an increasing number of people and the game industry is only expected to grow. In response, post-secondary institutions in the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States (US) have started to create game degree programs. Though curriculum theorists provide insight into the process of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Study, College Programs, Computer Games
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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
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Mysirlaki, Sofia; Paraskeva, Fotini – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2012
As our need for collaboration constantly grows, new tools have emerged to connect us in social networks, supporting the development of online communities, such as online games and virtual worlds. MMOGs (Massively Multiplayer Online Games) and MMORPGs (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games) are complex systems, in which players are…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Leadership, Educational Research, Leadership Training