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Sun, Jerry Chih-Yuan; Hwang, Gwo-Jen; Lin, Yu-Yan; Yu, Shih-Jou; Pan, Liu-Cheng; Chen, Ariel Yu-Zhen – Educational Technology & Society, 2018
This study explores the effects of integrated concept maps and classroom polling systems on students' learning performance, attentional behavior, and brainwaves associated with attention. Twenty-nine students from an Educational Research Methodology course were recruited as participants. For data collection, inclass quizzes, attentional behavior…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Voting, Attention, Student Behavior
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Wang, Xiao-Ming; Hwang, Gwo-Jen; Liang, Zi-Yun; Wang, Hsiu-Ying – Educational Technology & Society, 2017
It has become an important and challenging issue to foster students' concepts and skills of computer programming. Scholars believe that programming training could promote students' higher order thinking performance; however, many school teachers have reported the difficulty of teaching programming courses. Although several previous studies have…
Descriptors: Programming, Critical Thinking, Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries
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Yang, Tzu-Chi; Fu, Hseng-Tz; Hwang, Gwo-Jen; Yang, Stephen J. H. – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2017
Mathematical skills have been recognised as a core competence for engineering and science students. However, learning mathematics has been recognised as a difficult and challenging task for most students, in particular, calculus for first-year students in university. Consequently, the development of effective learning strategies and environments…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Skills, College Freshmen
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Wang, Sheng-Yuan; Chang, Shao-Chen; Hwang, Gwo-Jen; Chen, Pei-Ying – Interactive Learning Environments, 2018
In traditional teacher-centered mathematics instruction, students might show low learning motivation owing to the lack of applied contexts. Game-based learning has been recognized as a potential approach to addressing this issue; however, without proper alignment between the gaming and math-applied contexts, the benefits of game-based learning…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Role Playing, Teaching Methods, Educational Games
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Hwang, Gwo-Jen; Tu, Nien-Ting; Wang, Xiao-Ming – Educational Technology & Society, 2018
With the rapid progress of technology, the popularity of tablet computers and the development of e-book applications have brought the use of e-books as a learning tool under the spotlight. In the meantime, the aim of school education lies not only in providing students with knowledge but also in encouraging them to construct knowledge actively.…
Descriptors: Electronic Publishing, Books, Feedback (Response), Pretests Posttests
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Wu, Po-Han; Hwang, Gwo-Jen; Yang, Mei-Ling; Chen, Chih-Hung – Interactive Learning Environments, 2018
Augmented reality (AR) offers potential advantages for intensifying environmental context awareness and augmenting students' experiences in real-world environments by dynamically overlapping digital materials with a real-world environment. However, some challenges to AR learning environments have been described, such as participants' cognitive…
Descriptors: Simulated Environment, Teaching Methods, Computer Simulation, Elementary School Students
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Hwang, Gwo-Jen; Lai, Chiu-Lin – Educational Technology & Society, 2017
Flipped learning is a well-recognized learning mode that reverses the traditional in-class instruction arrangement by delivering learning content outside of the classroom and engaging students in more activities in class. However, it remains a challenge for students to comprehend the learning material by themselves, particularly when learning…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Video Technology
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Chang, Shao-Chen; Hwang, Gwo-Jen – Interactive Learning Environments, 2017
In this study, a mission synchronization-based peer-assistance approach is proposed to improve students' learning performance in digital game-based learning activities. To evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed approach, an experiment has been conducted in an elementary school natural science course to examine the participants' learning…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Computer Games, Peer Relationship, Cooperative Learning
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Lin, Chi-Jen; Hwang, Gwo-Jen – Educational Technology & Society, 2018
Flipped classrooms have been widely adopted and discussed by school teachers and researchers in the past decade. However, few studies have been conducted to formally evaluate the effectiveness of flipped classrooms in terms of improving EFL students' English oral presentation, not to mention investigating factors affecting their flipped learning…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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Hwang, Gwo-Jen; Sung, Han-Yu; Chang, Hsuan – Interactive Learning Environments, 2017
Researchers have pointed out that interactive e-books have rich content and interactive features which can promote students' learning interest. However, researchers have also indicated the need to integrate effective learning supports or tools to help students organize what they have learned so as to increase their learning performance, in…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Quasiexperimental Design, Control Groups, Electronic Publishing
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Hsu, Ting-Chia; Hwang, Gwo-Jen – Educational Technology & Society, 2017
Programming concepts are important and challenging to novices who are beginning to study computer programming skills. In addition to the textbook content, students usually learn the concepts of programming from the web; however, it could be difficult for novice learners to effectively derive helpful information from such non-structured open…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Teaching Methods, Computer Science Education, Information Sources
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Wang, Hsiu-Ying; Huang, Iwen; Hwang, Gwo-Jen – Educational Technology & Society, 2016
Concept mapping has been widely used in various fields to facilitate students' organization of knowledge. Previous studies have, however, pointed out that it is difficult for students to construct concept maps from the abundant searched data without appropriate scaffolding. Thus, researchers have suggested that students could produce high quality…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Climate, High School Students
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Sung, Han-Yu; Hwang, Gwo-Jen; Chang, Ya-Chi – Interactive Learning Environments, 2016
In this study, a problem-posing strategy is proposed for supporting collaborative mobile learning activities. Accordingly, a mobile learning environment has been developed, and an experiment on a local culture course has been conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed approach. Three classes of an elementary school in southern Taiwan…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Problem Solving, Teaching Methods, Handheld Devices
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Wongwatkit, Charoenchai; Srisawasdi, Niwat; Hwang, Gwo-Jen; Panjaburee, Patcharin – Interactive Learning Environments, 2017
The advancement of computer and communication technologies has enabled students to learn across various real-world contexts with supports from the learning system. In the meantime, researchers have emphasized the necessity of providing personalized learning guidance or support by considering individual students' status and needs in order to…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Web Based Instruction, Educational Diagnosis, Formative Evaluation
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Hwang, Gwo-Jen; Wu, Po-Han; Chen, Chi-Chang; Tu, Nien-Ting – Interactive Learning Environments, 2016
Augmented reality (AR) has been recognized as a potential technology to help students link what they are observing in the real world to their prior knowledge. One of the most challenging issues of AR-based learning is the provision of effective strategy to help students focus on what they need to observe in the field. In this study, a competitive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Simulated Environment, Educational Technology, Computer Games