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Almås, Håvard; Pinkow, Felix; Giaever, Fay – Smart Learning Environments, 2023
While the use of games for learning in higher education is well established, existing research provides limited understanding of individual experiences that shape engagement and learning in collaborative learning games. Insights into players' individual experiences can, however, contribute to a more nuanced utilization of learning games and to…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Learning Experience, College Students, Cooperative Learning
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Martin-Cruz, Natalia; Martin-Gutierrez, Adrian; Rojo-Revenga, Miguel – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2022
Methods for teaching higher education students how to learn teamwork skills are constantly evolving. Over the last few years, serious games have become popular in business schools for stimulating teamwork among students by making them focus on the game while pursuing a team objective. Among these games, LEGO® Serious Play has shown enormous…
Descriptors: Toys, Play, Teamwork, Cooperative Learning
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Handby, Edmund – Journal of Political Science Education, 2021
The use of games and simulation pedagogy has proliferated across political science and international relations, yet remains fledgling in political theory. Irrespective of discipline, the benefit of games and simulations is well established. However, existing simulations in political philosophy tend to address the teaching of the history of ideas,…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Political Science, Theories, Foreign Countries
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Whyte, Christopher – Journal of Political Science Education, 2021
This essay outlines a set of mini-games designed to more effectively allow political science instructors, particularly in International Relations, teach basic principles and concepts associated with digital insecurity and cyber conflict. This topic, increasingly significant in IR syllabi in recent years, is in many cases considered with…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Political Science, Information Security, Active Learning
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Julie Chevalier; Pascal Terrien; Christian Bonnet; Guy Gimenez; Christine Poplimont; Éric Tortochot – International Journal of Art & Design Education, 2025
The paper presents an experiment with a squiggle game in a design class: a joint drawing activity. The squiggle game, which comes from psychoanalysis, has been adapted to a teaching-learning situation in order to observe how graphic design practices and skills develop through creativity. The hypothesis is that the game impacts the training of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Career and Technical Education, Psychotherapy, Art Therapy
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Syynimaa, Kirsi; Lainema, Kirsi; Lainema, Timo – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2022
Game-based learning (GBL) environments are shown to support open-ended inquiry, collaborative learning, shared knowledge creation and decision-making processes. The study at hand focuses on examining students' descriptions of problematic situations and collaborative learning in a virtual simulation game. We were interested in what kinds of…
Descriptors: Teamwork, Cooperative Learning, Game Based Learning, Electronic Learning
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Kuznetsova, Maria; Gura, Dmitry; Vorona-Slivinskaya, Lubov – Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, 2023
Aim/Purpose: The main purpose is to study the experience of using virtual team building as a means of forming educational and research teams in the context of the development of online education and its effect among students and teachers of higher educational institutions. Background: Methods ensuring effective engagement of students in learning…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Teamwork, Online Courses
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Bai, Shurui; Hew, Khe Foon; Gonda, Donn Emmanuel; Huang, Biyun; Liang, Xinyi – International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education, 2022
We used the design-based research approach to test and refine a theoretically grounded goal-access-feedback-challenge-collaboration gamification model. The testbed was a 10-week, university-level e-learning design course offered in two consecutive semesters. In Study 1, we implemented the initial goal-access-feedback-challenge-collaboration model…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Models, Fantasy, Electronic Learning
Anjelica B. Hart – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This qualitative research study explored the procedures and instructional practices of implementing game-based learning within a course and/or curriculum in higher education. Game-based learning is structured to integrate gameplay into a subject matter to increase a student's ability to acquire and apply knowledge to the real world. Furthermore,…
Descriptors: College Students, Game Based Learning, Educational Games, Learner Engagement
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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Plump, Carolyn M.; Meisel, Steven I. – Management Teaching Review, 2020
A constant challenge for faculty is to gain and to hold student interest so that substantive learning can occur. One way to achieve this is through the use of games. This article describes an escape room activity for the classroom that is modeled after commercial escape rooms. This fun, single-session team dynamics exercise can be used in an…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Learner Engagement, Retention (Psychology), College Students
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Reyes, Encarnación; Gálvez, Jaime C.; Enfedaque, Alejandro – Education Sciences, 2021
This paper presents the experience of a group of Construction and Building Materials lecturers following the introduction of a new contest-based gamification activity aimed at improving interest and learning outcomes in the course. Students' motivation is of key importance in utilizing educational activities for study and learning in the subject.…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Learning Motivation, Active Learning, Cooperative Learning
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Bellés-Calvera, Lucía; Martínez-Hernández, Ana-Isabel – Latin American Journal of Content and Language Integrated Learning, 2022
In present-day educational contexts, the integration of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and gamification has been the basis for implementing escape rooms as pedagogical tools. This paper examines the role of virtual escape rooms in boosting History learners' motivation in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) contexts.…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Cooperative Learning, Problem Solving, Educational Environment
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Hansen, Dirk; Arnett, Carlee; Suñer, Ferran – Research-publishing.net, 2019
Over the past few years, language teaching has progressively evolved from teacher-fronted classroom settings to more complex, learner-centered scenarios, allowing learners to explore authentic contents, work collaboratively, and create sophisticated and socially relevant products. In addition, these processes foster language learning, increase…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Cooperative Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Motz, Vicki Abrams; Koneval, Timothy; Bennett-Toomey, Jill; Suniga, Rema G.; Connour, Jacqueline Runestad – HAPS Educator, 2019
Board games continue to increase in popularity and the pedagogical value of games has been repeatedly supported. Games keep students engaged and the level of engagement translates directly into time spent playing, and correspondingly, time spent reviewing course material. Therefore, game play is expected to result in greater student success.…
Descriptors: Anatomy, Physiology, Educational Games, Game Based Learning
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