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Price, Colin B. – Simulation & Gaming, 2008
Commercial computer games contain "physics engine" components, responsible for providing realistic interactions among game objects. The question naturally arises of whether these engines can be used to develop educational materials for high school and university physics education. To answer this question, the author's group recently conducted a…
Descriptors: Physics, Computers, Games, Science Education
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Volkema, Roger; Rivers, Cheryl – Journal of Education for Business, 2008
In this article, the authors describe a classroom exercise in which students from the United States negotiated with students from Australia, using only e-mail as the communicating medium. The authors discuss the results of those negotiations and lessons learned by students and instructors using a medium with modest information richness in a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cross Cultural Training, Cross Cultural Studies, Computer Mediated Communication
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Haake, Magnus; Gulz, Agneta – Educational Technology & Society, 2008
The paper deals with the use of visual stereotypes in virtual pedagogical agents and its potential impact in digital learning environments. An analysis of the concept of visual stereotypes is followed by a discussion of affordances and drawbacks as to their use in the context of traditional media. Next, the paper explores whether virtual…
Descriptors: Stereotypes, Educational Technology, Instructional Design, Computer Mediated Communication
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Herbert, Sandra; Pierce, Robyn – International Journal of Computers for Mathematical Learning, 2008
Does speed provide a "model for" rate of change in other contexts? Does JavaMathWorlds (JMW), animated simulation software, assist in the development of the "model for" rate of change? This project investigates the transference of understandings of rate gained in a motion context to a non-motion context. Students were 27 14-15 year old students at…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Motion, Models, Animation
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Burkholder, Phillip R.; Purser, Gordon H.; Cole, Renee S. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2008
Intermolecular forces play an important role in many aspects of chemistry ranging from inorganic to biological chemistry. These forces dictate molecular conformation, species aggregation (including self-assembly), trends in solubility and boiling points, adsorption characteristics, viscosity, phase changes, surface tension, capillary action, vapor…
Descriptors: Advanced Courses, Chemistry, Molecular Structure, Science Instruction
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Kuhn, Deanna; Pease, Maria – Cognition and Instruction, 2008
To identify the challenges that students must meet to engage in effective self-directed inquiry, a class was followed for three years, from the fourth through the sixth grades, as they engaged in a sequence of progressively more demanding inquiry activities. Students made substantial progress in understanding the objectives of inquiry, identifying…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Longitudinal Studies, Independent Study, Active Learning
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Prayaga, Chandra – Physics Education, 2008
A simple interface between VPython and Microsoft (MS) Office products such as Word and Excel, controlled by Visual Basic for Applications, is described. The interface allows the preparation of content-rich, interactive learning environments by taking advantage of the three-dimensional (3D) visualization capabilities of VPython and the GUI…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Visualization, Scientific Concepts, Computer Software
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De Giusti, Marisa Raquel; Lira, Ariel Jorge; Villarreal, Gonzalo Lujan – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2008
Simulation is the process of executing a model that describes a system with enough detail; this model has its entities, an internal state, some input and output variables and a list of processes bound to these variables. Teaching a simulation language such as general purpose simulation system (GPSS) is always a challenge, because of the way it…
Descriptors: Programming Languages, Simulation, Computer Simulation, Computer System Design
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Allison, John – Learning, Media and Technology, 2008
This paper will undertake a critical review of the impact of virtual reality tools on the teaching of history. Virtual reality is useful in several different ways. History educators, elementary and secondary school teachers and professors, can all profit from the digital environment. Challenges arise quickly however. Virtual reality technologies…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Secondary School Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, College Faculty
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Ranalli, Jim – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2008
With their realistic animation, complex scenarios and impressive interactivity, computer simulation games might be able to provide context-rich, cognitively engaging virtual environments for language learning. However, simulation games designed for L2 learners are in short supply. As an alternative, could games designed for the mass-market be…
Descriptors: Computers, Games, Computer Simulation, Virtual Classrooms
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Manlove, S.; Lazonder, A. W.; de Jong, T. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2006
This study examined whether online tool support for regulation promotes student learning during collaborative inquiry in a computer simulation-based learning environment. Sixty-one students worked in small groups to conduct a scientific inquiry with fluid dynamics. Groups in the experimental condition received a support tool with regulatory…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Computer Simulation, Cooperative Learning, Inquiry
Howard, Jennifer – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2006
The University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) has unveiled plans for what appears to be the world's first online, peer-reviewed encyclopedia devoted to ancient Egypt. The "UCLA Encyclopedia of Egypt," which in April won a $325,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, will include material in Arabic as well as…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Computer Simulation, Encyclopedias, Foreign Countries
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Morey, Jim – International Journal of Computers for Mathematical Learning, 2006
This paper introduces the language associated with a polygon microworld called Polygon R&D, which has the mathematical crispness of Logo and has the discreteness and simplicity of a Turing machine. In this microworld, polygons serve two purposes: as agents (similar to the turtles in Logo), and as data (landmarks in the plane). Programming the…
Descriptors: Programming, Mathematics, Computer Uses in Education, Courseware
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Le, Huy; Schmidt, Frank L. – Psychological Methods, 2006
Using computer simulation, the authors assessed the accuracy of J. E. Hunter, F. L. Schmidt, and H. Le's (2006) procedure for correcting for indirect range restriction, the most common type of range restriction, in comparison with the conventional practice of applying the Thorndike Case II correction for direct range restriction. Hunter et…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Predictor Variables, Correlation, Computation
Lindgren, Robb – ProQuest LLC, 2009
An extensive research literature in education and psychology demonstrates positive effects of perspective-taking on various forms of learning. Until recently, perspective-taking has been limited to the mental simulation of how someone with different beliefs, knowledge, physical location, etc., perceives an object or event. Over the last decade…
Descriptors: Photography, Videotape Recorders, Educational Technology, Training Methods
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