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Fátima Monteiro; Armando Sousa – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: The purpose of the article is to develop an innovative pedagogic tool: an escape room board game to be played in-class, targeting an introduction to an ethics course for engineering students. The design is student-centred and aims to increase students' appreciation, commitment and motivation to learning ethics, a challenging endeavour for…
Descriptors: Ethics, Engineering Education, Educational Innovation, Teaching Methods
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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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Araújo, Inês; Carvalho, Ana Amélia – Education Sciences, 2022
Although there is ample evidence that gamification can engage students in learning, it is less used than one would expect. This raises the question of the difficulties teachers face in planning and implementing gamification in their classes. What enables teachers' implementation of gamification? These questions were addressed through a case study,…
Descriptors: Gamification, Educational Games, Game Based Learning, Educational Technology
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Rita Rodrigues; João Ferreira-Santos; Julia Draghi; Margarida M. Marques; Lúcia Pombo – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2024
To drive effective change towards sustainable development, several courses of action have been devised, and education was pointed as a way to attain this goal. Recognizing the impact of learning in context, it is essential to develop innovative educational proposals that bring schools into other social contexts. This study aims to present, albeit…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Student Attitudes, Handheld Devices, Telecommunications
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Silva, Rui; Rodrigues, Ricardo; Leal, Carmem – Accounting Education, 2019
Flow theory is used in this article [Csikszentmihalyi, M. (1990). "The domain of creativity"] to determine whether gamified resources, named Accountingame and Marketingame, possess certain characteristics which, in the form of educational games, increase the performance of Portuguese undergraduate students attending Accounting (N = 816)…
Descriptors: Accounting, Marketing, Business Administration Education, Game Based Learning
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Pombo, Lúcia; Marques, Margarida M. – Education Sciences, 2021
Mobile augmented reality games (MARGs) can be leveraged for educational purposes, as there are several examples in the literature revealing their educational value. The supporting technologies for MARGs' implementation in education are increasingly pervasive and popular, so it is time for their adoption in teacher practices. However, the…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Inservice Teacher Education, Teacher Workshops, Elementary School Teachers
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Pombo, Lúcia; Marques, Margarida Morais; Afonso, Luís; Dias, Paulo; Madeira, Joaquim – International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning, 2019
There is a discussion on the potential of augmented reality (AR), mobile technologies to enhance learning. This article presents: 1) the EduPARK project's first cycle of design-based research for the development of a mobile AR game-like app that aims to promote learning in an urban park, and 2) an experience of students using it in loco. The focus…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Computer Simulation, Computer Software, Outdoor Education
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Pombo, Lúcia; Marques, Margarida M. – Education Sciences, 2020
New teaching methodologies are nowadays integrating mobile devices, augmented reality (AR), and game-based learning in educational contexts. The combination of these three elements is considered highly innovative, and it allows learning to move beyond traditional classroom environments to nature spaces that students can physically explore. The…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Computer Simulation, Game Based Learning, Handheld Devices