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Direct linkChen Meng; Mengyuan Zhao; Zilong Pan; Qianqian Pan; Curtis J. Bonk – Smart Learning Environments, 2024
As online learning and teaching are becoming an educational trend, online students' engagement will directly impact the learning and teaching effects and outcomes. A scientific application of gamification in online learning, teaching, and online course design will improve online learners' learning experience and help build a better virtual…
Descriptors: Gamification, Electronic Learning, Learner Engagement, Student Motivation
Burnette, Jeni L.; O'Boyle, Ernest H.; VanEpps, Eric M.; Pollack, Jeffrey M.; Finkel, Eli J. – Psychological Bulletin, 2013
This review builds on self-control theory (Carver & Scheier, 1998) to develop a theoretical framework for investigating associations of implicit theories with self-regulation. This framework conceptualizes self-regulation in terms of 3 crucial processes: goal setting, goal operating, and goal monitoring. In this meta-analysis, we included…
Descriptors: Self Control, Theories, Goal Orientation, Meta Analysis
Download full textGarfinkle, Adam – Foreign Policy Research Institute, 2011
The author wrote a piece called "What Our Children Should Learn about 9/11." In that piece, the author made just four simple points. These include: (1) children should know the facts; (2) once they had a grounding in the facts, the children should not abjure moral judgment; (3) children should learn to make both analytical and moral…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, World History, Foreign Policy, Arabs
Lewis, Tracy M. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The purpose of this multiple case study was to identify ways to improve learner persistence in General Equivalency Diploma (GED) programs in the U.S. The participants in this multiple case study were GED instructors and adults without high school diplomas who were enrolled in two GED programs were located in the Southern and Southwestern U.S.…
Descriptors: High School Equivalency Programs, Reading Skills, Self Efficacy, Transportation
