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Publication Date: 2015
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Impeding Phenomena Emerging from Students' Constructivist Online Game-Based Learning Process: Implications for the Importance of Teacher Facilitation
Jong, Morris Siu-yung; Shang, Junjie
Educational Technology & Society, v18 n2 p262-283 2015
"Virtual Interactive Student-Oriented Learning Environment" ("VISOLE") is a pedagogical approach to integrating constructivist online game-based learning (COGBLe) into formal teaching in school education. This paper reports a qualitative case study on the implementation of VISOLE (in secondary Geography education) in which we probed into the impeding phenomena emerging from the course of students' learning. Four students--"a nongamer student", "a gamer student", "an examination-oriented student", and "an angry student" were the focal units of analysis. Apart from identifying three impeding phenomena--"impromptu gaming," "arbitrary gaming", and "halt gaming", we observed how the teacher tried to mitigate these phenomena during the implementation process. Besides providing the field with a new understanding of harnessing online gaming in teaching and learning from the student perspective, the study revealed the importance of teacher facilitation in COGBLe.
Descriptors: Educational Games, Constructivism (Learning), Technology Integration, Electronic Learning, Learning Processes, Barriers, Teacher Role, Facilitators (Individuals), Geography Instruction, Qualitative Research, Case Studies, Program Implementation, Vignettes, Foreign Countries
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