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A Hybrid Escape Room to Foster Motivation and Programming Education for Pre-Service Teachers
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Oriol Borrás-Gené; Raquel Hijón-Neira; Pedro Paredes-Barragán; Lucía Serrano-Luján – International Journal of Game-Based Learning, 2024
Educational escape rooms aims to motivate students, to strengthen knowledge and evaluate learning. Pre-service teachers enrolled in "Computer Science and Digital Competency" course shows lack of motivation and difficulties to realise its usefulness in everyday practice, becoming an ideal context to apply this strategy. 157 students…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Problem Solving, Student Motivation, Programming
Using Scratch with Primary School Children: An Evaluation of Games Constructed to Gauge Understanding of Programming Concepts
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Wilson, Amanda; Hainey, Thomas; Connolly, Thomas M. – International Journal of Game-Based Learning, 2013
Newer approaches such as games-based learning (GBL) and games-based construction are being adopted to motivate and engage students within the Curriculum for Excellence (CfE) in Scotland. GBL and games-based construction suffer from a dearth of empirical evidence supporting their validity as teaching and learning approaches. To address this issue…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Teaching Methods, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education