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Alexander Card – ProQuest LLC, 2022
One approach to teaching game design to students with a wide variety of disciplinary backgrounds is through team game projects that span multiple weeks, up to an entire term. However, open-ended, creative projects introduce a gamut of challenges to novice programmers. My goal is to assist game design students with the planning stage of their…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Programming, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Teaching Methods
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Billiot, Theresa; Forbes, Lukas P. – Journal of International Education in Business, 2021
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to use Fink's (2013) taxonomy of significant learning in a retail marketing class to help rural, price-sensitive students develop empathy toward high-end urban customers while becoming self-directed learners. Design/methodology/approach: Using a 16-week pilot course, students developed a gaming prototype and…
Descriptors: Empathy, Learning Processes, Socioeconomic Status, Marketing
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Yallihep, Mirac; Kutlu, Birgul – Education and Information Technologies, 2020
The purpose of this study was to measure the impacts of mobile serious games on fifth grade students' attitudes towards "Information Technology and Software" course and understanding of programming concepts. For this purpose, a five weeks long study was conducted in a private primary school in Turkey with randomly selected 36 fifth grade…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Computer Software, Student Attitudes, Programming
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Yildirim, Osman; Ozdener, Nesrin – International Journal of Technology in Education and Science, 2021
Computer games are effective instructional tools used in programming courses to increase students' motivation and engagement. This participatory action research aims to redesign the Object-Oriented Programming course in which the first author is both the instructor and researcher to make it more effective and efficient. In the first step of the…
Descriptors: Action Research, Programming, Computer Science Education, Computer Software
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Shroff, Ronnie Homi; Ting, Fridolin Sze Thou; Lam, Wai Hung – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2019
This article reports on the design, development, and validation of a new instrument, the Technology-Enabled Active Learning Inventory (TEAL), to measure students' perceptions of active learning in a technology-enabled learning context. By laying the theoretical foundation, a conceptual framework for technology-enabled active learning was…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Active Learning, Validity, Measures (Individuals)
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Craig D. Howard; Cary Staples; Sébastien Dubreil; Lisa C. Yamagata-Lynch – International Journal of Designs for Learning, 2016
In this design case, we present an instructional design project that resulted in a French language learning game development system. What we describe here is not the game itself, but rather the pedagogical intervention that created what the design team termed a mobile "application farm," which in turn produced the game. The term…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Computer Software, Teaching Methods, Computer Games
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Nunes, Miguel Baptista, Ed.; McPherson, Maggie, Ed.; Kommers, Piet, Ed.; Isaias, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2017
These proceedings contain the papers of the International Conference e-Learning 2017, which was organised by the International Association for Development of the Information Society, 20-22 July, 2017. This conference is part of the Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems 2017, 20-23 July, which had a total of 652 submissions.…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Online Courses, Teaching Methods, Information Literacy