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Gang Yang; Dan Zheng; Ji-Huan Chen; Qun-Fang Zeng; Yun-Fang Tu; Xiao-Li Zheng – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
The game-based learning approach to developing students' computational thinking (CT) current has received attention from researchers. However, the compatibility between games and instruction is often insufficient to accommodate the entertaining and educational nature of the curriculum entirely, and the benefits of game-based learning could be…
Descriptors: Role Playing, Educational Games, Mental Computation, Learner Engagement
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Xiao-Ming Wang; Wen-Qing Zhou; Gwo-Jen Hwang; Shi-Man Wang; Tong Huang – Educational Technology & Society, 2024
Knowing the factors affecting students' learning achievement in digital learning is a crucial educational issue nowadays. However, recent research has paid less attention to how an individual's internal factors (prior knowledge) influence their learning achievement through cognitive engagement, and previous studies generally employed students'…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Prior Learning, Cognitive Processes, Learner Engagement
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Liu, Haoyu; Yen, Pi-Ying – Journal of Education for Business, 2022
The sailboat game is popular in supply chain management teaching. In the game, students play different roles in a supply chain and try to achieve better performance in terms of minimizing costs, while gaining knowledge in production processes, quality management, and inventory management. Despite its popularity, how the sailboat game is beneficial…
Descriptors: Management Development, Educational Games, Teaching Methods, Business Administration Education
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Stewart, Patrick A.; Terrell, Elaine; Kareev, Alex M.; Ellison, Blake Tylar; Urteaga, Charini I. – Journal of Political Science Education, 2020
This article considers the development of an ongoing team-based project to incorporate a game into an online American National Government class. We start by suggesting that play, and the games that provide for play to occur, is the most natural way for individuals to learn. Technologies offered by online education provide the opportunity to…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, United States Government (Course), Educational Games, Integrated Learning Systems
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Posch, Konrad; Stenberg, Matthew – Journal of Political Science Education, 2021
International relations is often confusing for students. IR theories are introduced as parsimonious and elegant and then systematically challenged as students learn more about detailed events. There are rules, there are norms, and states follow them until they don't. East Asia increases these challenges because it often undermines IR theory.…
Descriptors: Political Science, Simulation, Role Playing, Teaching Methods
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Huang, Ronghuai, Ed.; Kinshuk, Ed.; Chen, Nian-Shing, Ed. – Lecture Notes in Educational Technology, 2014
The book addresses the main issues concerned with the new development of learning processes, innovative pedagogical changes, the effects of new technologies on education, future learning content, which aims to gather the newest concepts, research and best practices on the frontiers of technology enhanced learning from the aspects of learning,…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Teaching Methods, Computer Software
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Waters, John K. – T.H.E. Journal, 2007
This article reports the potential of online role-playing games to be a powerful tool for English as a second language (ESL) learning. When Professor Edd Schneider and game designer Kai Zheng suggested to attendees gathered in San Francisco last spring for the annual Game Developers Conference that massively multiplayer online role-playing games,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Language Skills, English (Second Language)
Eden City Schools, NC. – 1979
The document contains eight activity sets suitable for grades 6 and 7. Topics focus on governmental, social, and educational systems in foreign countries. Each activity set contains background reading materials, resources, concepts, general objectives, and instructional objectives. Grade 6 sets are "Soviet Youth Organizations,""How…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Comparative Education, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Awareness