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Matic, Ljerka Jukic; Karavakou, Myrto; Grizioti, Marianthi – International Journal of Game-Based Learning, 2023
The literature reports that while digital educational games are used in the elementary classroom, they are rarely, if ever, used in the upper secondary mathematics classroom. In order to investigate this situation, a survey was conducted to determine what upper secondary school mathematics teachers think about digital games and what obstacles and…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Electronic Learning, Educational Games, Learner Engagement
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Meriläinen, Merja; Piispanen, Maarika – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2022
Early foreign language teaching has recently been made compulsory in Finland, making this an area open to development and innovation where policy-makers and teachers play a significant role in creating new kinds of learning environments, operating cultures, and pedagogy for foreign language learning. This article discusses the early foreign…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Play, Authentic Learning, Second Language Learning
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Sari Lipponen; Kenneth Eklund; Marja-Leena Laakso; Merja Koivula; Kerttu Huttunen – Early Education and Development, 2025
Today, digital games are considered important tools for learning, but using them in early childhood education and care (ECEC) has raised the question of educators' roles when children play an educational digital game. The aim of this study was to explore how ECEC educators differed in their attitudes and perceptions toward and ways of supporting…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Role, Game Based Learning
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Jake McMullen; Antti Koskinen; Tomi Kärki; Antero Lindstedt; Saku Määttä; Hilma Halme; Erno Lehtinen; Minna M. Hannula-Sormunen; Kristian Kiili – Mathematical Thinking and Learning: An International Journal, 2024
Adaptive expertise is a highly sought after, but difficult to achieve, outcome of mathematics education. Many teaching methods appear to support the development of adaptive expertise only in a small proportion of students. Game-based learning environments may be useful for supporting adaptive expertise. Therefore, we carried out a…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Number Concepts, Knowledge Level, Intervention
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Kalmi, Panu; Rahko, Jaana – Journal of Economic Education, 2022
The authors of this article studied the effects of game-based financial education approaches using a sample of lower-secondary school students in Finland. The sample consisted of 640 students from 42 schools in different areas of the country. The authors focused on three different game-based interventions using a pre- and post-intervention survey…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Economics Education, Money Management, Secondary School Students
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Syynimaa, Kirsi; Lainema, Kirsi; Lainema, Timo – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2022
Game-based learning (GBL) environments are shown to support open-ended inquiry, collaborative learning, shared knowledge creation and decision-making processes. The study at hand focuses on examining students' descriptions of problematic situations and collaborative learning in a virtual simulation game. We were interested in what kinds of…
Descriptors: Teamwork, Cooperative Learning, Game Based Learning, Electronic Learning
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Kirsi Syynimaa; Kirsi Lainema; Timo Lainema – International Journal of Technology in Education, 2024
The application of digital game-based learning (GBL) methods has lately received more attention in higher education (HE). An extensive body of previous investigations has recognised the potential of instructional games to advance the learning of appropriate work life skills. However, there seems to be a lack of understanding in the current…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Game Based Learning, Educational Games
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Koskinen, Antti; McMullen, Jake; Ninaus, Manuel; Kiili, Kristian – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2023
Background: In recent years, the importance of emotions in learning has been increasingly recognized. Applying emotional design to induce positive emotions has been considered a means to enhance the instructional effectiveness of digital learning environments. However, only a few studies have examined the specific effects of emotional design in…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Student Motivation, Academic Achievement
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Aura, Isabella; Järvelä, Simo; Hassan, Lobna; Hamari, Juho – Journal of Educational Research, 2023
This study examines the effects of a role-play-based pedagogical method in Finland on the twenty-first century skills propensity among 6th graders (12-year-olds). The approach entails a simulation of a society in a gamified learning environment as part of their formal education. Structural Equation Modeling was employed to analyze the students' (N…
Descriptors: Role Playing, 21st Century Skills, Teaching Methods, Grade 6
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Ekin, Cansu Cigdem; Gul, Abdulmenaf – International Journal of Technology in Education, 2022
This research aims to conduct a bibliometric study to describe how game-based educational research is structured and how it has evolved over time. For this purpose, bibliometric analysis has been used to analyze 4980 publications indexed by the Elsevier SCOPUS database between 1967 and May 2021. The related publications were evaluated by analyzing…
Descriptors: Bibliometrics, Game Based Learning, Educational Research, Publications
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Jaskari, Minna-Maarit; Syrjälä, Henna – Journal of Marketing Education, 2023
In this article, we examine the linkage between students' game-playing motivations and a wide variety of gamification elements within higher marketing education. Using an interpretive and convergent mixed-methods design, we discover four clusters of students that vary in terms of their game-motivational bases and views on gamification elements.…
Descriptors: Marketing, Game Based Learning, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes
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Bui, Phuong; Rodríguez-Aflecht, Gabriela; Brezovszky, Boglárka; Hannula-Sormunen, Minna M.; Laato, Samuli; Lehtinen, Erno – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2020
Serious games for learning have received increased attention in recent years. However, empirical studies on students' gaming experiences throughout the developmental process of serious games and discussions regarding game design are missing. The aims of the present study were to analyze students' gaming experiences while playing four consecutive…
Descriptors: Student Experience, Educational Games, Design, Mathematics Instruction
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Günes, Gökhan – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
This study sought an answer to the question whether the digitalization of play is technological mutation or digital evolution. To this end, 14 studies published over the last five years were reviewed and discussed under four themes, namely digital technology and children, parents', and teachers' perceptions of digital technology, screen effects,…
Descriptors: Play, Young Children, Early Childhood Education, Video Games
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Dowdall, Shane; Hlobaz, Artur; Milczarski, Piotr; O'Reilly, Derek; Podlaski, Krzysztof; Stawska, Zofia – Informatics in Education, 2021
The development of communication and other soft skills among computer science students is not usually an easy task. Often, curricula focus on technical skills, with team projects being used for the improvement of communication skills. However, these teams usually comprise solely of computer science students. In this paper, we present a didactical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Science Education, Soft Skills, Skill Development
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Fombona, Javier; Fombona-Pascual, Alba; Vazquez-Cano, Esteban – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2023
This article shows the result of an international project from the European Commission, and it aimed to analyse 30 cases of effective European entities in the field of adult education, from Poland, Spain, Finland and Italy. The objective was to collect the best strategies that generate good employment and social inclusion results. The research…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Cross Cultural Studies, Social Integration, Employment Opportunities
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