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"It's Not Always Poor Decisions": Shifts in Business Student's Attitudes toward Poverty after Completing 'SPENT'
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Jessica M. Parks – Journal on Empowering Teaching Excellence, 2023
This Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) study examined whether undergraduate business students reported having different attitudes towards poverty after completing SPENT. SPENT is an open-access, digital poverty simulation offered through Urban Ministries of Durham. The author used the Reflexive Thematic Analysis approach (Braun &…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Student Attitudes, Undergraduate Students, Introductory Courses
Ideologies and Competition: Student Reflections on Their Statecraft Experience
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Kaftan, Joanna; Linantud, John – Journal of Political Science Education, 2021
This article utilizes the online world politics simulation Statecraft to examine how students perceive the influence of simulations on their political ideologies as well as their expectations about behavior and outcomes within the constraints of a virtual world. This paper does not evaluate learning outcomes or student understanding of class…
Descriptors: Foreign Policy, Student Attitudes, International Relations, Political Science
Fluctuations in Self-Perceived Foreign Language Anxiety during Visits to Second Life: A Case Study
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Kruk, Mariusz – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2021
The present paper presents the results of a study which examined fluctuations in the levels of foreign language anxiety (FLA) in the virtual world Second Life (SL) and factors accounting for such changes as reported by a female student of English philology. The student participated in 14 sessions over the period of one semester. Using data…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Communication (Thought Transfer), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Comparing Pedagogies for Plastic Waste Management at University Level
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Yeung, Siu-Kit; So, Wing-Mui Winnie; Cheng, Nga-Yee Irene; Cheung, Tsz-Yan; Chow, Cheuk-Fai – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2017
Purpose: This paper aims to compare the learning outcomes of gaming simulation and guided inquiry in sustainability education on plastic waste management. The current study targets the identification of success factors in these teaching approaches. Design/methodology/approach: This study used a quasi-experimental design with undergraduate…
Descriptors: Sanitation, Plastics, Environmental Education, Sustainability
The Context Is the Message?! Learning about the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict through Computerized Simulations in Different National Contexts
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Kampf, Ronit – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2016
Two cross-national experimental studies examined the effects of PeaceMaker and Global Conflicts on knowledge acquisition and attitude change regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. PeaceMaker and Global Conflicts are role-playing computerized simulations of this conflict. 248 undergraduate students from Turkey, Israel, Palestine and the US…
Descriptors: Conflict, Computer Simulation, Simulated Environment, Educational Technology
Proceedings of the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) International Conference on e-Learning (Madrid, Spain, July 17-19, 2018)
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Nunes, Miguel Baptista, Ed.; Isaias, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2018
These proceedings contain the papers of the International Conference e-Learning 2018, which was organised by the International Association for Development of the Information Society, 17-19 July, 2018. This conference is part of the Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems 2018, 17-20 July, which had a total of 617 submissions.…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Educational Technology, Online Courses, Educational Environment
Impact of Classroom Computer Use on Computer Anxiety.
Lambert, Matthew E.; And Others – 1989
Increasing use of computer programs for undergraduate psychology education has raised concern over the impact of computer anxiety on educational performance. Additionally, some researchers have indicated that classroom computer use can exacerbate pre-existing computer anxiety. To evaluate the relationship between in-class computer use and computer…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Attitude Change, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Simulation