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Zhitian Skylor Zhang; Martina Seemann; Richard Joos; Markus Suren; Helge Fischer; Mathias Hofmann – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2025
Given the increasing emphasis on game-based approaches (GBAs) and the critical importance of cultivating creativity, there is an urgent need for a comprehensive examination of this emerging interdisciplinary field. The present study employs a scoping review methodology to provide an overview of the existing research that utilized GBAs as a means…
Descriptors: Creativity, Teaching Methods, Game Based Learning, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Vasiliki Brinia; Aris Plios; Paraskevi Psoni – International Journal of Learning and Change, 2024
Playfulness as a learning technique is applied into the present research in a group of adult learners. Initially, a game scenario was designed and implemented for the subject of microeconomics. Following a qualitative research methodology, through observation and interviews with ten participants before and after the playful activity, the results…
Descriptors: Play, Game Based Learning, Microeconomics, Learning Activities
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Chi-Cheng Chang; Szu-Ting Yang – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
This study aimed to investigate the differences in learners' emotion, cognitive load, and cognitive performance among various scaffolding DGBLs, and the influences of emotion and cognitive load on cognitive performance when using DGBLs. Participants were 97 adult learners from some community college, randomly divided into the control group with 32…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Cognitive Processes, Self Efficacy, Game Based Learning
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Chang, Chi-Cheng; Yang, Szu-Ting – International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education, 2023
There has been a little research on emotion, cognitive load, or learning performance for digital game-based learning (DGBL). However, there is still a dearth of research on investigating the interactive effects of scaffolding DGBL and cognitive style on the above three outcomes. Participants were 97 middle-aged and elder adults from a community…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adults, Emotional Response, Cognitive Processes
Melissa Riley – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore the adult students' perceptions of Game-Based Learning's mitigation of math anxiety in a STEM math course at a mid-sized university in Southeast Texas. The participants in this study included 11 students who identified as adult learners with math anxiety taught by the researcher in a STEM…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Game Based Learning, Mathematics Anxiety, Adult Students
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Demirbilek, Muhammet; Talan, Tarik; Alzouebi, Khadeegha – International Journal of Technology in Education, 2022
The purpose of this study is to identify key factors and barriers to implementing gamification in English Foreign language teaching. In alignment with the purpose of the study, the perspectives of English teachers (which grades) were obtained. This study was designed as a qualitative study. A total of 16 teachers participated in the study.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Teachers, Second Language Instruction, Teacher Attitudes
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Fombona, Javier; Fombona-Pascual, Alba; Vazquez-Cano, Esteban – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2023
This article shows the result of an international project from the European Commission, and it aimed to analyse 30 cases of effective European entities in the field of adult education, from Poland, Spain, Finland and Italy. The objective was to collect the best strategies that generate good employment and social inclusion results. The research…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Cross Cultural Studies, Social Integration, Employment Opportunities
Santos, Brian James – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This study investigated the relationship between adult learner attitudes toward technology and learning style. A sample of community college Spanish students in a Midwestern city in the United States was surveyed to determine (a) an attitude score toward Spanish e-instruction based on the Lukow ATUTS (Attitudes toward Using Technology Survey) and…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Cognitive Style, Electronic Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Coskun, Zeynep Nesrin; Mitrani, Cagla – Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 2020
The aim of the study is to design an effective instruction build on the Dick and Carey Model and game-based learning that enables an undiagnosed language learner of dyslexia, facing problems in vocabulary acquisition to acquire a pre-defined number of vocabularies in a given time. The method of the curriculum development study is based on a case…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Vocabulary Development, Game Based Learning, Teaching Methods
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Reinders, Hayo, Ed.; Ryan, Stephen, Ed.; Nakamura, Sachiko, Ed. – New Language Learning and Teaching Environments, 2019
This book examines a wide range of innovations in language learning and teaching in Japan. Each of the chapters describes the impetus for a change or new development in a particular context, from early childhood to adult learning, details its implementation and provides an evaluation of its success. In doing so, they provide a comprehensive…
Descriptors: Instructional Innovation, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
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Beaven, Tita, Ed.; Rosell-Aguilar, Fernando, Ed. – Research-publishing.net, 2021
The Innovative Language Pedagogy Report presents new and emerging approaches to language teaching, learning, and assessment in school, further education, and higher education settings. Researchers and practitioners provide 22 research-informed, short articles on their chosen pedagogy, with examples and resources. The report is jargon-free, written…
Descriptors: Instructional Innovation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Bastiaens, Theo, Ed. – Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, 2022
The Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE) is an international, non-profit educational organization. The Association's purpose is to advance the knowledge, theory, and quality of teaching and learning at all levels with information technology. The "EdMedia + Innovate Learning" conference took place in New York,…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Flipped Classroom, Online Courses, Student Projects
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Simonson, Michael, Ed.; Seepersaud, Deborah, Ed. – Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 2018
For the forty-first time, the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) is sponsoring the publication of these Proceedings. Papers published in this volume were presented at the annual AECT Convention in Kansas City, Missouri. The Proceedings of AECT's Convention are published in two volumes. Volume 1 contains twenty-seven…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Migrant Education, Adult Education
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Simonson, Michael, Ed.; Seepersaud, Deborah, Ed. – Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 2021
For the forty-fourth time, the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) is sponsoring the publication of these Proceedings. Papers published in this volume were presented online and onsite during the annual AECT Convention. Volume 1 contains papers dealing primarily with research and development topics. Papers dealing with…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Feedback (Response), Course Evaluation
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Sampson, Demetrios G., Ed.; Ifenthaler, Dirk, Ed.; Isaías, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2018
The aim of the 2018 International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age (CELDA) conference was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There have been advances in both cognitive…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Teaching Methods, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education