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Gwo-Jen Hwang; Ching-Yi Chang – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
In professional healthcare training programs, field experience after physical courses is essential for students to become professionals. However, the outbreak of the pandemic has restricted such field experience, and so students' problem-solving awareness when facing clinical emergencies in a professional field after graduation has become a…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Academic Achievement, Sense of Community, Thinking Skills
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Aldhafiri, Mohammad D. – Education and Information Technologies, 2020
This study sought to investigate the effectiveness of interactive whiteboards (IWB) on students' Arabic listening skills at Kuwaiti universities during the second semester of the 2018/2019 academic year. A review of the literature indicates that interactive whiteboards support the language learning, as well as to improve students' achievement…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Visual Aids, Educational Equipment, Interactive Video
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Ahmad, Samah Zakareya – Journal of Education and Learning, 2019
This study investigates the effect of digital posters on the reading comprehension and engagement of EFL students. Thirty-three 3rd-year EFL college students were divided into a control group (n = 17) and an experimental group (n = 16). Both groups were pretested on reading comprehension and engagement before the experiment and then posttested…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Reading Comprehension
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Park, Youngmin; Oh, Rosa – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2018
Improving reading fluency in English is a challenging task for English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) students. It is particularly hard for those whose first languages are linguistically distant from English, for example, Korea, Chinese, Japanese, and other Asian languages. The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether digitally reformatted…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Middle School Students
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Liliarti, Nina; Kuswanto, Heru – International Journal of Instruction, 2018
The research aimed to produce an Android-based learning media with local cultural content in the form of the othok-othok toy ship to improve the competence of diagrammatic and argumentative representation in Physics. 4D methods were used with a control and an experimental class in the first grade of a Senior High School. The learning media…
Descriptors: Physics, Persuasive Discourse, Visual Aids, High School Students
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Chen, Gwo-Dong; Fan, Cheng-Yu; Chang, Chih-Kai; Chang, Yun-Hsuan; Chen, Yen-Hua – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2018
In traditional learning, students passively absorb the materials provided by their teachers or textbooks. Thus, their learning autonomy is insufficient, and this affects learning motivation. Students find it difficult to absorb the knowledge taught in a classroom and apply it to real life. We combined situated learning and learning through drama…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Visual Aids, English (Second Language)
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Cabus, Sofie J.; Haelermans, Carla; Franken, Sonja – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2017
This paper explored the effects of in-class-level differentiation by making innovative use of an interactive whiteboard (SMARTboard) on math proficiency. Therefore, this paper evaluates the use of SMARTboard in class, in combination with teacher training, using a randomized field experiment among 199 pre-vocational students in seventh grade in the…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Bulletin Boards, Visual Aids
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Kwasu, Isaac Ali – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
The study seek to reveal the importance of instructional visual in educational systems in Bauchi Nigeria. Instructional visual play very significant roles as medium of communication for learning. The research for this article was motivated by this understanding of the need. The study carried out in Nigeria in one of the most challenging state,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Control Groups, Experimental Groups
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Dizon, Gilbert; Tang, Daniel – The EUROCALL Review, 2017
Several researchers have compared the efficacy of digital flashcards (DFs) versus paper flashcards (PFs) to improve L2 vocabulary and have concluded that using DFs is more effective (Azabdaftari & Mozaheb, 2012; Basoglu & Akdemir, 2010; KiliƧkaya & Krajka, 2010). However, these studies did not utilize vocabulary learning strategies…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Vocabulary Development, Second Language Instruction, Visual Aids
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Aktas, Sinan; Aydin, Abdullah – Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 2016
Statement of Problem: In this study, in teaching the unit "electricity in our lives" in the 7th grade science and technology class, the effect of using smart boards to the students' retention of the information is examined and compared to the 2005 Science and Technology curriculum. Purpose of the study: The aim of the current study is to…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Energy, Grade 7, Science Instruction
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Casteleyn, Jordi; Mottart, Andre; Valcke, Martin – Research in Learning Technology, 2015
Instead of the traditional set of slides, the visual aids of a presentation can now be graphic organisers (concept maps, knowledge maps, mind maps) on an infinite canvas. Constructing graphic organisers has a beneficial impact on learning, but this topic has not been studied in the context of giving a presentation. The present study examined this…
Descriptors: Visual Aids, Concept Mapping, Maps, Instructional Materials
Goodwin, Amanda Heywood – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Teacher knowledge in the area of educational technology has been a prevalent research focus over the past decade, with researchers examining the ways in which technologies may be applied in the classroom. Recently, there has been a shift in studies, and researchers have begun to look at the ways in which a teacher may integrate technology into…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Educational Technology, Technology Integration
Felicello, Kris – ProQuest LLC, 2011
In quasi-experimental study, the researcher investigated and compared the effectiveness of two types of ELA instruction: (a) traditional ELA instruction methods such as flash cards practice, read aloud, dittos, and (b) instruction using iPod touch applications as a teaching resource. Two classes of heterogeneously grouped 5 [superscript th] grade…
Descriptors: Quasiexperimental Design, Instructional Effectiveness, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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Dupagne, Michel; Stacks, Don W.; Giroux, Valerie Manno – Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 2007
This study examines whether video streaming can reduce trait and state communication apprehension, as well as improve communication competence, in public speaking classes. Video streaming technology has been touted as the next generation of video feedback for public speaking students because it is not limited by time or space and allows Internet…
Descriptors: Public Speaking, Control Groups, Anxiety, Internet