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This research reports the findings of experiments conducted in Kuwait to explore how randomness in educational engineering video games can assist autistic children in experiencing randomness and developing their cognitive behaviors. The experiments are based on an engineering educational application that was implemented based on random numbers and by using the Stroop effect theory. Different scenarios...
In order for educational video games to continue aiding in the teaching / learning processes it is necessary to continue advancing, first, in their educational effectiveness and, secondly, in their ease of use for the teacher. This ease of use is multifaceted; one aspect is the assessment of learning achieved by students. In an educational environment where continuous assessment is a requirement and...
This research is about how to create an educational video game whose main purpose is to stimulate logical and spatial reasoning of children. For this goal, we have applied an incremental methodology in order to be able to produce a Massive Multiplayer Online Game. With the intention of incorporating operations necessary for cognitive development and simultaneously to control the mechanics of the video...
Thanks to their motivational potential, video games have started to be increasingly used for e-learning. However, as e-learning gradually shifts towards mobile learning, there is a growing need for innovative techniques to deliver rich learning material such as educational games to resource-constrained devices. In particular, the limited battery capacity of mobile devices stands out as a key issue...
Plager-VG is an architecture to design, execute, analyze and adapt video game — based learning processes, especially those that include group activities and use collaborative learning techniques. In this paper, we focus on the processes of monitoring and adaptation, both the game and educational content, to get the best results through the use of collaborative games. To carry out these processes,...
The evaluation process is key for educator's acceptance of any educational action. The evaluation is challenging in most cases but especially when educational games are used. In educational games if in-game evaluation exist it is usually based on a series of simple goals and whether these goals are achieved (i.e. assessment). But we consider that evaluation can be improved by taking advantage of in-game...
In e-Learning the interest on the use of new kinds of highly-interactive content is increasing. In this regard video games are one of the media that is gaining momentum because of their high potential for enhancing both students' motivation and learning outcomes. Nevertheless, the actual adoption of games in the educational system is scarce. In this paper we identify different open issues to be addressed...
Within the last years educational games have attracted some attention from the academic community. Multiple enhancements of the learning experience are usually attributed to educational games, although the most cited is their potential to improve students' motivation. In spite of these expected advantages, how to introduce video games in the learning process is an issue that is not completely clear...
Despite the emergent research of educational video games, video gaming experience and associated gender disparity are two important factors that have been overlooked when determining optimal learning environments for educational video games. For those who lack experience, educational video games may tax cognitive load and preclude informal learning benefits. This pilot study compared five males and...
Several studies claim for the benefits that collaborative learning has to the students' comprehensive development as well as many benefit of introducing new technologies into the educational field. By other hand, interaction analysis in collaborative learning processes has become an important research field. Starting from these two realities, this work presents the modeling of a Video Game Supported...
New technologies have been incorporated to schools as learning tools some time ago. In this paper we remark some advantages of video games as educational systems and how we can use them as a tool of CSCL (computer-supported collaborative learning) into classrooms. Moreover, we consider that learning process is important enough to be measured in addition to the solution. So, we are interested in this...
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