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Download full textAlexandra Rysul'ova – NORDSCI, 2023
Virtual worlds, like Second Life, are transformative innovations in education. These immersive 3D environments offer teachers and students unique opportunities beyond traditional classrooms. They foster active learning, allowing students to interact, manipulate objects, and engage with diverse content. This multimodal approach accommodates various…
Descriptors: Information Security, Computer Simulation, Barriers, Teaching Methods
Direct linkWen Jia; Austin Pack; Yi Guan; Liping Zhang; Bin Zou – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2025
Despite the growing interest in game-based learning (GBL) over the last two decades, the influence of Augmented Reality-based GBL on English vocabulary growth is still not well understood when compared with other forms of media, especially with regard to academic English vocabulary. This quasi-experimental study with 90 Chinese…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Peterson, Mark – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2023
This paper reviews the literature on the use of digital simulation games in computer-assisted language learning (CALL). The discussion explores research approaches, contexts, methodologies, findings, trends and issues in peer-reviewed research that has investigated the use of this type of digital game over the period 2005 to 2020. Results showed…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Sykes, Julie M. – Foreign Language Annals, 2018
The digital gaming industry has captured the public's attention worldwide and in the United States alone, the video game industry is predicted to increase by 30% from 2010 to 2019, reaching $19.6 billion in revenue (Takahashi, 2015, n.p.). Not surprisingly, digital gameplay is also rapidly expanding in educational domains. Although researchers…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
Lai, Kuo-Wei Kyle; Chen, Hao-Jan Howard – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2023
Research on vocabulary acquisition in digital game-based learning has been increasing over the years, with advancements in technology giving rise to numerous learning alternatives in second language acquisition. As virtual reality gaming offers new opportunities to explore its effectiveness in language learning, it is thus important to investigate…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Game Based Learning, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Sevim-Cirak, Nese; Yildirim, Zahide – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2020
This phenomenological study investigates mining engineering students' game playing experiences for educational purposes and seeks to understand the essence of their experiences. In this study, three non-gamer and three-gamer mining engineering students were selected through a criterion sampling method, and then data were collected through in-depth…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Computer Games, Educational Games, Mining
Bolton, Ruth N.; Chapman, Randall G.; Mills, Adam J. – Journal of Marketing Education, 2019
A marketing simulation represents a comprehensive and integrative business environment in which students actively manage firms that compete against each other. This article describes how marketing simulations harness digital disruption to enhance learning processes and outcomes and (ultimately) prepare students for their future careers. The…
Descriptors: Marketing, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Competition
Kim, Minsung; Shin, Jungyeop – Journal of Geography, 2016
This article investigated the pedagogical potential of the "SimCity" simulation game in an urban geography course. University students used "SimCity" to build their own cities and applied a wide range of theories to support their urban structures. Moreover, the students critically evaluated the logic and functioning of the…
Descriptors: Urban Areas, Geography Instruction, Computer Simulation, Teaching Methods
Pellas, Nikolaos – Interactive Learning Environments, 2017
The combination of Open Sim and Scratch4OS can be a worthwhile innovation for introductory programming courses, using a Community of Inquiry (CoI) model as a theoretical instructional design framework. This empirical study had a threefold purpose to present: (a) an instructional design framework for the beneficial formalization of a virtual…
Descriptors: Educational Indicators, Communities of Practice, Computer Simulation, High School Students
Mavridis, Apostolos; Tsiatsos, Thrasyvoulos; Chatzakis, Michalis; Kitsikoudis, Konstantinos; Lazarou, Efthymios – International Journal of Game-Based Learning, 2015
This study examined whether a 3D collaborative gave can be used as a midterm examination method and investigated the impact of this game on students' attitude towards collaboration. A total of 89 students and one coordinating professor participated in this study. The intervention lasted five weeks and took place in a computer science department.…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Educational Games, Computer Simulation, Computer Assisted Testing
Project Tomorrow, 2016
The Speak Up National Research Project annually polls K-12 students, parents and educators about the role of technology for learning in and out of school. For the past thirteen years, Project Tomorrow's® annual Speak Up Research Project has provided schools and districts nationwide and throughout the globe with new insights into how today's…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Video Technology, Computer Games, Animation
Sánchez, Inmaculada Arnedillo, Ed.; Isaias, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2018
These proceedings contain the papers of the 14th International Conference on Mobile Learning 2018, which was organised by the International Association for Development of the Information Society, in Lisbon, Portugal, April 14-16, 2018. The Mobile Learning 2018 Conference seeks to provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of mobile…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Educational Research, Data Collection, Data Analysis
Franklin, Teresa J. – Journal of Educational Technology, 2008
Higher education and in particular Colleges of Education are viewed as falling behind in the use of technology for teaching and learning (Lederman & Niess, 2000). With today's student population identified as digital natives and the evening news discussing the potential of virtual worlds as new learning environments, an examination of the…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Social Systems, Internet, Social Media
