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Kai Guo; Yuchun Zhong; Zamzami Zainuddin; Samuel Kai Wah Chu – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
Given the crucial role of writing in both academic and workplace settings, teachers should constantly seek effective ways to improve their students' writing skills. The use of games or their elements to support the teaching and learning of writing has gained much attention in language education studies. Despite the increasing number of empirical…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Educational Games, Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods
Zhong, Lin – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2023
Engagement in educational games was conceptualized as four dimensions but few studies have examined the four dimensions together. Additionally, game features vary greatly in different game genres that demand different engagement dimensions. However, engaging game features were studied in general and did not inquire specific game genres in extant…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Educational Games, Computer Games, Cognitive Ability
Dimov, Cvetomir M.; Anderson, John R.; Betts, Shawn A.; Bothell, Dan – Cognitive Science, 2023
We studied collaborative skill acquisition in a dynamic setting with the game Co-op Space Fortress. While gaining expertise, the majority of subjects became increasingly consistent in the role they adopted without being able to communicate. Moreover, they acted in anticipation of the future task state. We constructed a collaborative skill…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Skill Development, Expertise, Role Playing
Chen, Hsiu-Ling; Wu, Cheng-Ting – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
The present research examined the effect of digital role-playing game-based learning on high school students' critical thinking ability. Playing a digital game designed with RPG Maker and whose story lines featured critical thinking questions, a total of 32 high school student participants were given a learning context to practice critical…
Descriptors: High School Students, Computer Games, Video Games, Role Playing
Ellen McCammon; Jessica Law; Crystal Tyler; Mason Arrington; Patrick Jagoda; Melissa Gilliam – Urban Education, 2024
Black and Latinx adolescents in urban schools can derive numerous benefits from tailored career and health education. However, many factors may prevent schools and teachers from offering such programing. To address the need for career and health education, we prototyped Caduceus Quest, a theory-based, digital role-playing game designed to provide…
Descriptors: Computer Games, African American Students, Hispanic American Students, High School Students
Guner-Ozer, Mediha; Belet Boyaci, S. Dilek; Özer, Fatih – International Technology and Education Journal, 2022
The present study aimed to discuss the development of an educational digital game for Turkish language instruction as a second language to foreign primary school students. First, the correlation between digital games and education was discussed, the learning and motivational theories fundamental to the educational digital games were investigated,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Turkish, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Students
Which Play Is Better? Different Play Types and Development of Executive Functions in Early Childhood
Veraksa, Aleksander; Sukhikh, Vera; Veresov, Nikolay; Almazova, Olga – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2022
In this study we aimed to compare the contribution of each play type to the development of different EFs components: shifting, working memory (visuospatial and auditory) and inhibition (two aspects of cognitive inhibition and physical inhibition). Following a preliminary examination of EFs was the intervention, which consisted of 14 play sessions…
Descriptors: Play, Child Behavior, Executive Function, Short Term Memory
Dixit Bharatkumar Patel; Xavian Ogletree; Yong Pei – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2022
While serious role-play games have been developed for individuals with autism spectrum disorders to learn social interactions and emotions, there is a lack of role-playing games that teach people without autism the necessary communication skills to engage and interact effectively with autistic people. In this research, we present a mobile serious…
Descriptors: Role Playing, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Interpersonal Competence, Communication Skills
Sandberg, Magnus H.; Silseth, Kenneth – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2021
Henrik Ibsen's play "Peer Gynt" digs deep into the question of what it means to be oneself. An upcoming computer game version invites players to take on the role of Peer and thereby raises new questions about identity and identification. By recording dyads of students who play an early version of the game and analysing their interaction…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Classics (Literature), Educational Games, Role Playing
Torres-Rodríguez, Fabio Adrián; Martínez-Granada, Liliana – HOW, 2022
Fostering spoken communication in a foreign language classroom is not an easy task. With that in mind, this paper explores a proposal to motivate students' L2 oral communication through the practice of narrative games called tabletop roleplaying games adapted as task-based activities. It implied an action research process in which the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Speech Communication, Second Language Instruction, Oral Language
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
Pease, Michael; Pérez-Lapeña, Blanca; Lant, Christopher – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2019
This paper describes environmental systems games developed for energy and water resource use designed to be adaptable from high school to undergraduate use. Two of the games are computer simulations with adjustable levels of difficulty that can be done in a computer lab or as a homework assignment. The third is a peer-to-peer roleplayer game…
Descriptors: Energy, Water, Natural Resources, Geography Instruction
Yang, Zhiguo; Guo, Xiang – Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, 2020
Hadoop is a well-known big data system and a subject covered in many big data courses. This article describes two role play games for teaching the two fundamental components in the Hadoop framework, MapReduce and Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS). In the games, students form teams and play different roles as a part of a Hadoop cluster. The…
Descriptors: Role Playing, Educational Games, Teaching Methods, Class Activities
Sim, Duncan; Boyle, Elizabeth; Leith, Murray Stewart; Williams, Alan; Jimoyiannis, Athanassios; Tsiotakis, Panagiotis – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2021
This paper explores the contribution to geography teaching which can be made by serious games. We describe the ways in which gaming has progressed from "dissected maps" and jigsaws through board games, to the range of online games which are available today. We describe the development, in conjunction with European partner institutions,…
Descriptors: Geography, Instruction, Teaching Methods, Educational Games
Bawa, Papia – International Journal of Game-Based Learning, 2020
Today, there is growing interest in digital game-based learning (DGBL) due to the increase in the variety of educational and commercial games available. Literature indicates that video games in general have entertaining, motivational, and educational benefits. Despite this, there is a lack of research comparing game types to assess their value for…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Game Based Learning, Role Playing