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Antonio Ruiz Ezquerro – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation observed and analyzed the experiences of five higher education students participating in a modified tabletop role-playing game (TRPG) intentionally modified for teaching adaptive leadership concepts. The study observed participants' capacity to learn the adaptive leadership concepts taught throughout the game and the ways in…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Role Playing, Leadership Training, Undergraduate Students
Kai Guo; Yuchun Zhong; Zamzami Zainuddin; Samuel Kai Wah Chu – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
Given the crucial role of writing in both academic and workplace settings, teachers should constantly seek effective ways to improve their students' writing skills. The use of games or their elements to support the teaching and learning of writing has gained much attention in language education studies. Despite the increasing number of empirical…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Educational Games, Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods
Arturo Cortez; José Ramón Lizárraga; Edward Rivero – Reading Research Quarterly, 2024
This article reports on findings from a social design-based study conducted with an intergenerational group of youth, educators and researchers participating in the Learning to Transform (LiTT) Gaming Lab. We advance the notion of AlgoRitmo Literacies, to highlight the ingenuity of youth and educators as they used a tool called Character AI to…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, Latin American Culture, Literacy
Zhong, Lin – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2023
Engagement in educational games was conceptualized as four dimensions but few studies have examined the four dimensions together. Additionally, game features vary greatly in different game genres that demand different engagement dimensions. However, engaging game features were studied in general and did not inquire specific game genres in extant…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Educational Games, Computer Games, Cognitive Ability
Rich Paul Cooper; Jonan Phillip Donaldson; Mahjabin Chowdhury; Jonathan M. Mitchell – International Journal of Designs for Learning, 2024
"The Ballad of Proxima-B" is an educational RPG that promotes learning and collaboration. Students contribute to world-building and game mechanics, creating fictional worlds and characters, including a dystopian Earth, the planet Proxima-B, and alien races. The game incorporates constructivist, constructionist, and Dynamic Systems Model…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Game Based Learning, Role Playing, Science Fiction
Xiaojia Wang; Rickard Enstroem – Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, 2024
Information flow is one of the three main flows of supply chains. It is an abstract concept that can be challenging for students to grasp in its entirety. This article describes a role-playing game for teaching the topic of information flow in an undergraduate supply chain management course. The game allows students to simulate receiving and…
Descriptors: Role Playing, Educational Games, Undergraduate Study, Economics Education
Hermann Härtel – European Journal of Physics Education, 2021
The traditional treatment of the electric circuit in textbooks can be criticized in at least three respects: A) Knowledge of the global aspects of the electric circuit as a system is essential for a deeper understanding. However, this is not sufficiently emphasized. B) The presentation of the term "potential difference" or…
Descriptors: Energy, Class Activities, Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts
Lasley, Joe – New Directions for Student Leadership, 2022
This article describes a developmental framework for the application of role-playing games (RPGs) in leadership learning. RPGs relate to leadership learning on a range of levels from individual development, to team building, to parallel group processes. The variety and depth of learning and development potential in RPGs is very exciting,…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Role Playing, Leadership Training, Teamwork
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
Meij, Hans; Veldkamp, Sabine; Leemkuil, Henny – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2020
Research on serious games shows that complementary design measures are often needed to increase effectiveness. The present study investigated the role of scripted collaboration. In such a collaboration, players are assigned roles or given specific tasks to stimulate them to communicate more about essential game aspects (eg, arguing why a move…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Scripts, Cooperative Learning, Role Playing
Zhong, Lin – Smart Learning Environments, 2022
While role-playing games and personalized learning have been regarded as effective tools to improve students' learning, incorporating personalized learning into role-playing games is challenging and approaches are limited to cognitive and motivational variables. Aiming at expanding approaches to incorporate personalization into role-playing games,…
Descriptors: Individualized Instruction, Role Playing, Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level
Zhong, Lin; Xie, Yufei; Xu, Luqiang – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
The personalization feature has been implemented in various ways in educational games but the effectiveness of personalization feature on students' engagement was mixed in literature. Culture might be one possible reason but has been seldom explored in previous studies. This study filled in this gap by investigating the impact of the…
Descriptors: Role Playing, Educational Games, Learner Engagement, Gender Differences
Gagan Bajaj; Ciraj Ali Mohammed; Soumendra Sahoo; Abhijit Datta; Dinesh Badyal; Tejinder Singh – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2024
Educators worldwide are seeking innovative teaching strategies for engaging remote learners. This study explores the impact of an online role-play on students' perceptions regarding Interprofessional education (IPE) and the usage of online role-play as a pedagogic approach. An online role-play for introducing fundamentals of IPE was organised as…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Medical Students, Role Playing, Foreign Countries
Makoto Hanita; Graham Buhrman; Joy Kennedy; Jacqueline Zweig; Hai Lun Tan; Alice Kaiser; Kevin Waterman – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2024
Background: Mission US is a series of interactive first-person role-playing history games and curricular materials that address a critical problem: students lack fundamental knowledge of our nation's history. According to the most recent National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP, 2018), only 13% of Grade 8 students were proficient on the…
Descriptors: United States History, History Instruction, Middle School Students, Educational Games
Fioravanti, Maria Lydia; de Oliveira Sestito, Camila Dias; de Deus, William Simao; Scatalon, Lilian Passos; Barbosa, Ellen Francine – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2022
Contribution: In this article, an experience applying three role-playing games in the context of an Entrepreneurship final project is presented, discussing the challenges, and the lessons learned. Background: Soft skills have been expounded repeatedly as a crucial factor to thrive in the workplace, as opposed to mere knowledge of content only,…
Descriptors: Role Playing, Educational Games, Communication Skills, Entrepreneurship