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Hsiu-Ling Chen; Abebayehu Yohannes; Ning-Li Hung – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2025
The escape room game is an example of digital game-based learning that has become a popular learning tool in recent years. However, not enough is known about enthusiasm for and promising reports of the use of escape rooms in education. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of escape room game-based civics education on eighth…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Computer Games, Computer Simulation, Video Games
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Yuanyuan Hu; Pieter Wouters; Marieke van der Schaaf; Liesbeth Kester – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2025
Learning with games requires two types of information, namely domain-specific information and game-specific information. Presenting these two types of information together with gameplay may pose a heavy demand on cognitive resources. This study investigates how timing of information presentation affects cognition (ie, mental effort and…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Secondary School Students, Chemistry, Schemata (Cognition)
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Eileen McGivney – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2025
Agency, or the capacity to take intentional actions, is considered one of the primary affordances of virtual reality (VR) for learning. VR is expected to increase learners' agency because it allows for full-body interactivity from a first-person perspective, giving them novel ways of interacting with the digital environment. Yet, agency in…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Computer Simulation, Field Trips, Personal Autonomy