Learning through playing Virtual Age: Exploring the interactions among student concept learning, gaming performance, in-game behaviors, and the use of in-game characters

• Published in: Computers and education Vol. 86; pp. 18 - 29
• Main Authors: Cheng, Meng-Tzu, Lin, Yu-Wen, She, Hsiao-Ching
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Ltd 01.08.2015
• Subjects: Age; Applications in subject areas; Design engineering; Education; Evolution; Games; Interactive learning environments; Learning; Secondary education; Students; Tasks; Teaching/learning strategies; Virtual reality; Teaching/learning strategies; Interactive learning environments; Applications in subject areas; Secondary education; Virtual reality

Video games possess many unique features that facilitate learning. Meanwhile, teaching about evolution is never an easy task due to the existence of some barriers to its learning. Virtual Age, therefore, has been developed in an attempt to harness the power of gaming to increase student understandin...