My-Pet-and-Her-Friends: Identifying Educational Roles of Animal Companions in Game-based Learning Environment

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhi-Hong Chen ◽  
Calvin C.Y. Liao ◽  
Tak-Wai Chan
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environment ◽  
Game Based Learning

CoboChild: a blended mobile game-based learning service for children in museum contexts

2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 294-312 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tien-Yu Hsu ◽  
HsinYi Liang ◽  
Chuang-Kai Chiou ◽  
Judy C.R. Tseng
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environment ◽  
Physical Space ◽  
Influential Factors ◽  
Game Based Learning ◽  
Museum Learning ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Mobile Game ◽  
Children’S Learning ◽  
Child Centered ◽  
Children's Learning

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop a blended mobile game-based learning service called CoboChild Mobile Exploration Service (hereinafter CoboChild) to support children’s learning in an environment blending virtual game worlds and a museum’s physical space. The contextual model of learning (CML) was applied to consider the related influential factors affecting museum learning and to promote children’s continuous learning and revisit motivations. Design/methodology/approach CoboChild provides a thematic game-based learning environment to facilitate children’s interactions with exhibits and other visitors. A practical system has been implemented in the National Museum of Natural Science (NMNS), Taiwan. A questionnaire was used to examine whether CoboChild can effectively fulfill the CML and to evaluate the impacts on museum learning. Findings CoboChild effectively fulfilled the CML to facilitate children’s interactive experiences and re-visit motivations in the blended mobile game-based learning environment. Most children described the system as providing fruitful playfulness while improving their interpretations of exhibitions and learning experiences. Practical implications CoboChild considers the related contextual influences on the effective support of children’s learning in a museum, and builds a child-centered museum learning environment with highly integrated blended learning resources for children. CoboChild has been successfully operating in the NMNS since 2011. Originality/value This study developed a blended mobile game-based learning service to effectively support children’s learning in museum contexts. The related issues are shown to improve the design of blended museum learning services. This innovative approach can be applied to the design of other child-centered services for engaging children’s interactive experiences in museums.

Wheel-Spinning in a Game-Based Learning Environment for Physics

2016 ◽  
pp. 234-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thelma D. Palaoag ◽  
Ma. Mercedes T. Rodrigo ◽  
Juan Miguel L. Andres ◽  
Juliana Ma. Alexandra L. Andres ◽  
Joseph E. Beck
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environment ◽  
Game Based Learning

scholarly journals Supporting Acquisition of Spelling Skills in Different Orthographies Using an Empirically Validated Digital Learning Environment

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heikki Juhani Lyytinen ◽  
Margaret Semrud-Clikeman ◽  
Hong Li ◽  
Kenneth Pugh ◽  
Ulla Richardson
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environment ◽  
Reading Skills ◽  
Digital Learning ◽  
Reading Disorders ◽  
Writing Systems ◽  
Game Based Learning ◽  
Decoding Skills ◽  
Digital Learning Environment ◽  
Association Learning ◽  
Early Readers

This paper discusses how the association learning principle works for supporting acquisition of basic spelling and reading skills using digital game-based learning environment with the Finland-based GraphoLearn (GL) technology. This program has been designed and validated to work with early readers of different alphabetic writing systems using repetition and reinforcing connections between spoken and written units. Initially GL was developed and found effective in training children at risk of reading disorders in Finland. Today GL training has been shown to support learning decoding skills among children independent of whether they face difficulties resulting from educational, social, or biological reasons.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document