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Aldo Gordillo; Daniel Lopez-Fernandez – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2024
Contribution: This article analyzes the learning effectiveness of a virtual educational escape room for teaching software engineering and compares this activity with traditional teaching through a randomized controlled trial. Background: Educational escape rooms have been used across a wide variety of disciplines at all levels of education and…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Computer Software, Conventional Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness
Li Ye; Jingyi Li; Simin Yang; Yongxin Hang – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
Traditional pattern teaching is an important part of the art curriculum, but the pattern are complex and difficult to learn. While schema theory focuses on the integration, understanding and construction process of knowledge, AR technology can provide a three-dimensional and dynamic display of patterns, which has been used in teaching in recent…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Game Based Learning, Art Education, Instructional Effectiveness
Zhao, Dan; Muntean, Cristina Hava; Chis, Adriana E.; Rozinaj, Gregor; Muntean, Gabriel-Miro – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2022
Contributions: This article presents a large-scale study which investigates students' reaction to game-based learning as part of programming courses. The study focuses on knowledge acquisition, learner experience, and game usability. Background: Despite the rapid growth of the information and communication technologies (ICTs) sector, the lack of…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Student Experience, Knowledge Level, College Students
Emma Whitt; Mark Haselgrove – Psychology Teaching Review, 2023
Using games in a classroom setting to help engagement and learning is becoming popular, but controlled investigations into the benefits of games are few. Games are potentially a way to incorporate retrieval practice into a class and garner subsequent benefits to memory. The aim of the present study was to investigate whether a board game assisted…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Game Based Learning, Biology, Psychology
Krishnan, Sunanthiny; Blebil, Ali Qais; Dujaili, Juman Abdulelah; Chuang, Sara; Lim, Angelina – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
As we enter a world of blended learning in higher education, an increased need for adaptation of teaching strategies to enhance engagement has been recognised to amplify learning outcomes online. Gamification has been identified as a creative tool to engage the current cohort of learners who are also characteristically tech-savvy. To this end,…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Pharmaceutical Education, Pharmacology, Game Based Learning
Parrondo, M.; Rayon-Viña, F.; Borrell, Y. J.; Miralles, L. – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2021
"Sustainable Sea" is a strategy game developed for educational purposes in which players assume the role of fishermen while learning concepts related to the sustainable management of fishing resources. Players earn points as they apply sustainable policies. The game was tested on high-school students and students pursuing bachelor's and…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Animal Husbandry, Sustainable Development, High School Students
Feroz, Hafiz Muhammad Basit; Zulfiqar, Salman; Noor, Sadaf; Huo, Chunhui – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2022
Purpose: Knowledge acquisition is a pivotal concern for the students and many sources help them to obtain knowledge. In this paper, the authors theoretically examine three engagements such as social media, peer and academic engagement by the theoretical foundation of engagement theory which tells that students interact and collaborate, sharing…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Social Media, Peer Relationship, Learner Engagement
Acosta-Medina, Julieth Katherin; Torres-Barreto, Martha Liliana; Cárdenas-Parga, Andrés Felipe – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2021
Virtual education faces tremendous challenges such as lack of motivation and high dropout rates. However, one solution to this problem is the incorporation of digital pedagogical strategies based on gamification, which promote interest, facilitate the learning process, and contribute to reducing dropout. In this sense, we evaluated the student's…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Preferences, College Students, Game Based Learning
Zou, Di; Zhang, Ruofei; Xie, Haoran; Wang, Fu Lee – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2021
Information literacy (IL) is important for university students. In this research, we developed a digital role-playing game to enhance students' learning of IL and investigated the effects of gameplay modes on their learning performance, motivation, self-efficacy and flow experiences. A total of 90 students participated in the study and played the…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Educational Games, Game Based Learning, Role Playing
Chan, Chung-Shing; Chan, Yat-hang; Fong, Tsz Heung Agnes – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2020
This paper introduces an e-Learning for urban tourism education through a scenario-based game of a hypothetical city. This scenario game set a good example to integrate components of e-Learning, gamification and scenario-based platform in tourism geography and planning education. This study evaluated the effectiveness of urban tourism scenario…
Descriptors: Urban Areas, Tourism, Game Based Learning, Teaching Methods
Chen, Hao-Jan Howard; Hsu, Hsiao-Ling – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2020
One of the more rapidly advancing subfields of second language acquisition research is Digital-game based language learning (DGBLL) and many studies have found that Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) games can have a positive effect on vocabulary acquisition. COTS games are specifically made for entertainment purposes, while serious games, which…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Computer Games, Game Based Learning, Simulated Environment
Hwang, Gwo-Haur; Chen, Beyin; Chen, Ru-Shan; Wu, Ting-Ting; Lai, Yu-Ling – Interactive Learning Environments, 2019
Competitive game-based learning has been widely discussed in terms of its positive and negative impacts on learners' learning effectiveness and learning behavior. Although different types of games require different kinds of knowledge to accomplish the task via competition, few studies have considered that knowledge types, such as procedural…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Adoption (Ideas), Competition, Game Based Learning
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: Instructional Design, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Higher Education
Lynch, Collin F., Ed.; Merceron, Agathe, Ed.; Desmarais, Michel, Ed.; Nkambou, Roger, Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2019
The 12th iteration of the International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2019) is organized under the auspices of the International Educational Data Mining Society in Montreal, Canada. The theme of this year's conference is EDM in Open-Ended Domains. As EDM has matured it has increasingly been applied to open-ended and ill-defined tasks…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Analysis, Information Retrieval, Content Analysis