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Treice de Oliveira Moreira; Cláudio Azevedo Passos; Flávio Roberto Matias da Silva; Paulo Márcio Souza Freire; Isabel Fernandes de Souza; Cláudia Rödel Bosaipo Sales da Silva; Ronaldo Ribeiro Goldschmidt – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
The problem of propagating disinformation (a.k.a. "fake news") on social media has increased significantly in the last few years. There are several initiatives around the world to combat this serious problem. Maybe the most promising ones involve training people to identify "fake news." The use of digital educational games…
Descriptors: Deception, News Reporting, Misinformation, Portuguese
Rahul Mohandas; Subhashree Mohapatra – Digital Education Review, 2025
Game-based learning (GBL) is an effective learning tool for medical and dental undergraduates in enhancing knowledge and skills as well as gaining student engagement and motivation. Educational games can create a social constructivist learning environment, where learners can construct their knowledge through interactions with their peers and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Dentistry, Game Based Learning, Student Motivation
Erümit, Semra Fis; Yilmaz, Türkan Karakus – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2022
In this study, gamification with game-based activities was implemented in an undergraduate information technologies course in a university. While the qualitative results of this mixed methods revealed what aspects of gamification supported students' learning in this course, the quantitative analysis of responses to pre- and post-testing showed…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Undergraduate Students, Student Motivation, Learner Engagement
Tsiotras, Dimitrios; Xinogalos, Stelios – Informatics in Education, 2021
There has been an active movement towards fun learning, using games in education. This article introduces the text-based serious game "Rise of the Java Emperor" that aims to support students in learning basic object-oriented programming concepts using Java. Information concerning the analysis, the design and the pilot evaluation of the…
Descriptors: Programming Languages, Teaching Methods, Graduate Students, Undergraduate Students
Leong Y. Jonathan; Ma Nang Laik – European Journal of Education (EJED), 2024
The importance of skills has been expounded repeatedly as a crucial factor to thrive in the workplace, as opposed to mere knowledge of content. It is important to be able to adapt to new situations; this is especially true in today's world, where volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA) are prevalent. To better prepare…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Learning Theories, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Kaimara, Polyxeni; Fokides, Emmanuel; Oikonomou, Andreas; Deliyannis, Ioannis – Education and Information Technologies, 2022
Digital educational games (DEGs) constitute an effective teaching approach, particularly when they are used in combination with collaborative learning scenarios. However, when changes are made in the teaching and learning process, teachers are responsible to apply and realize them in practice. Therefore, it is vital to understand their views and…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational Technology, Computer Games, Educational Games
Kargash, Atymanova; Gulden, Yespolova; Yerubay, Baibekov; Akmaral, Berdaliyeva; Omarov, Nurlybek; Nagashbek, Zhilisbayev – Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 2022
The aim of this study is to determine the creation of communicative competencies of students with game technology. The research was conducted in the fall semester of 2021-2022; the research consists of 327 volunteer students studying at universities in Kazakhstan and continuing their education. According to the sub-objectives of the research, the…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Computer Games
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
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
Langenhagen, Julian – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2022
Although badges are among the most-used game elements in gamified education, studies about their optimal features to motivate learning are scarce. How should a badge be designed to represent an incentive for a specific goal like optimal exam preparation? This study examines usage data of a higher education learning app to determine whether the…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Goal Orientation, Computer Software, Game Based Learning
Gao, Ya; Pan, Lin – Language Learning Journal, 2023
Mobile-assisted language learning is a growing feature of contemporary language learning, and their distinct gamification design produces new and increasingly popular contexts for language learning. This paper explores the gamification features of the two most popular EFL vocabulary learning applications widely used by Asian learners --…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Computer Assisted Instruction
Rivera-Ortega, Uriel – Physics Education, 2021
A Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) tool is proposed in this manuscript; which consists of an interactive, simple and low-cost computer based simulation and game, with the aim of easing the teaching/learning process regarding the physics concept of projectile motion. The novelty of this proposal relies on the use of a…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Computer Software, Graduate Students
Ardi, Priyatno; Rianita, Elvira – Teaching English with Technology, 2022
Student engagement is paramount for the success of EFL learning. This paper explores how the leverage of a game-based learning platform, Kahoot!, into EFL grammar learning and teaching boosted student engagement. One grammar lecturer and 22 English-major students participated in this qualitative case study. Data were obtained through observations,…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Saud, Syukur; Aeni, Nur; Azizah, Laelah – International Journal of Language Education, 2022
In creating a comfortable English learning atmosphere, the impressions of students and lecturers are crucial. Leading the students to be happy in learning is one of the big challenges for the lecturer. The aim of this study is to find out how students and lecturers feel about online learning by using gamification. It investigated how the students…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Tests
Smith, Hayden J.; Michelsen, Niall – Journal of Political Science Education, 2021
The Statecraft IR simulation has received a significant amount of attention in the pedagogical literature. Some instructors have asserted that Statecraft is biased toward the behavior and learning goals of realism, calling into question the utility of the simulation as a teaching tool. Using thirteen iterations of the simulation we empirically…
Descriptors: International Relations, Political Science, Teaching Methods, Teamwork