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Soumita Chakraborty; Nabin Thakur – Cogent Education, 2024
This study examined students' awareness of the environmental impacts associated with prolonged screen time, specifically during binge-watching sessions. It focused on students' understanding of carbon emissions from electronic devices, binge-watching behaviors, and factors like content preference, duration, and frequency. Potential interventions…
Descriptors: Environment, Conservation (Environment), College Students, Knowledge Level
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Jianshu Qiao; John R. Woodward; Atm S. Alam – Cogent Education, 2024
Rote memory (RM) has become the primary method of learning vocabulary for decades in China. However, RM is tedious, leading to reduced motivation and concentration. In contrast, Educational Video Games (EVGs) are attractive and fun, which could be an alternative to RM. Although most studies have investigated EVGs' effectiveness, empirical research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Video Games, Educational Games, English (Second Language)
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Alwaely, Suad Abdalkareem; Minnullina, Rosalia; Fedorova, Elena; Lazareva, Yuliya – Cogent Education, 2023
Not only children but also adults now spend much more time in front of the screen (computers, laptops, tablets, phones, TVs, Play Station, other game consoles, etc.) for various reasons: work, study, a lot of free time, communication, entertainment, information retrieval. The aim of this paper is to examine how the time spent in front of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Parents, Addictive Behavior
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Sormunen, Marjorita; Miettinen, Hanna – Cogent Education, 2017
Mobile devices are increasingly being used, in various ways, to collect data and are also increasingly related to individuals' health behaviors. Because of the paucity of available data about the process of mobile data collection in tracking daily health behaviors among children, we designed this pilot study to determine the possibilities and the…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Video Games, Health Behavior
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Ebrahimzadeh, Mohsen; Alavi, Sepideh – Cogent Education, 2016
The present study examined e-learning enjoyment to see if it could predict high school students' vocabulary learning through a digital video game. Furthermore, the difference between those who played and those who watched the game was assessed. Participants of the study were male, high school, EFL students (N = 136, age 12-18) randomly assigned to…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), English Language Learners, Student Attitudes, High School Students
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Cowley, Benjamin; Ravaja, Niklas – Cogent Education, 2014
Motivated by the link between play and learning, proposed in literature to have a neurobiological basis, we study the electroencephalogram and associated psychophysiology of "learning game" players. Forty-five players were tested for topic comprehension by a questionnaire administered before and after solo playing of the game Peacemaker…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Questionnaires, Games, Classification