Learning economics concepts through game-play: An experiment

Dobrescu, Loretti; Greiner, Ben; Motta, Alberto

doi:10.1016/j.ijer.2014.08.005

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“…In addition to this, our method also proved to be highly effective when integrating sustainability content into discussions of the economics of the Global South, which helps demonstrate the crucial role that teachers must play in bringing about change in sustainability education. In this context, the methodology demonstrated its effectiveness in improving the students' understanding of the multidimensional nature of sustainability and its relationship with core economic sectors, along with the consequences that economic decisions have in the environmental and social spheres [85]. It also showed the importance of identifying and addressing essential learning outcomes in economics, business, and management, and the beneficial role that simulations can play in the acquisition of essential cognitive, skill-based, and affective learning outcomes in education for sustainable development [86,87].…”

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Understanding Economic, Social, and Environmental Sustainability Challenges in the Global South

Sierra

Suárez-Collado

2021

Sustainability

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In an increasingly complex world, students of economics, business, and management must learn how to combine financial objectives with social and environmental aims. To that end, institutions, teachers, and curricula have a growing need for multidisciplinary approaches to reinforce education for sustainable development. This study presents a pilot project consisting of an innovative online simulation designed to help students understand the challenges that countries and companies from the Global South are facing to balance economic, social, and environmental objectives under sustainability criteria. This research uses quantitative and qualitative data provided by the students to assess the effectiveness of the methodology. The results indicate the usefulness of the methodology in helping students comprehend economic complexities in the Global South, as well as to assist them in acquiring key cognitive, skill-based, and affective educational outcomes. The combination of three active-learning methodologies (role-play, collaborative-learning, and inquiry-based learning) proved to be of high value to address sustainability-related issues in higher education and help students develop 21st-century skills.

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Understanding Economic, Social, and Environmental Sustainability Challenges in the Global South

Sierra

Suárez-Collado

2021

Sustainability

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“…Many studies have been conducted to investigate the effectiveness of using games in teaching and learning of various fields of study, theatre, economic, computer language implementation course, cognitive abilities and aritmethic performances, science and entrepreneurship education [11,[13][14]. Cheng [12] proposes an online competitive game-based learning containing learning points, competition mechanism, training room mechanism, questioning & answering mechanism, tips mechanism, and feedback mechanism.…”

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An Exploratory Qualitative and Quantitative Study into the Effectiveness of Digital Games as a Tool to Enhance the Learning of Introductory Programming

Yue¹,

Wan²

2016

IJDS

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“…In today's societies, pervasive Internet use has become part of people's daily lives (Musetti & Corsano, 2018) and online video gaming is one of the most popular and widespread forms of leisure activity (Statista, 2020;Wang et al, 2008). Playing video games has been associated with positive and beneficial outcomes including cognitive, motivational, emotional, social (Granic et al, 2014;Johnson et al, 2013), educational (Braghirolli et al, 2016;Dobrescu et al, 2015), and therapeutic (Griffiths, 2004(Griffiths, , 2019 benefits. On the other hand, a vast amount of research has provided evidence for detrimental and harmful effects of excessive and uncontrolled gaming use in a minority of video game players (Burleigh et al, 2019;Männikkö et al, 2017).…”

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Harmonious and obsessive involvement, self-esteem, and well-being. A longitudinal study on MMORPG players

Sibilla¹,

Musetti²,

Mancini³

2021

Cyberpsychology

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Starting from the dualistic model of passion by Vallerand and colleagues (2003), this study aimed to identify “obsessive” and “harmonious” involvements in MMORPGs and to verify their relationships with players’ self-esteem and well-being. An international sample of 147 MMORPG players participated in a longitudinal design filling out for 3 times an online questionnaire measuring game involvement (in terms of Internet Gaming Disorder [IGD] symptoms, time spent playing the video game, sense of presence while playing, and avatar identification), global self-esteem, and well-being (i.e., meaningful life, engaged life, and pleasant life). Results supported the presence of these two different types of involvement: Obsessive involvement, characterized by a close association between IGD symptoms and playing time; Harmonious involvement, characterized by a close association between presence, avatar identification, and IGD symptoms. Cross-lagged effects showed that, over time, low self-esteem and low meaningful life predicted obsessive involvement, which in turn predicted engaged life. The present study contributes to a better understanding of the effects between video games use and the users’ self-esteem and well-being. Furthermore, it contributes to the theoretical debate about problematic involvement in videogames, also providing some indications about problematic gaming assessment and prevention.

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Learning economics concepts through game-play: An experiment

Cited by 31 publications

References 37 publications

Understanding Economic, Social, and Environmental Sustainability Challenges in the Global South

Understanding Economic, Social, and Environmental Sustainability Challenges in the Global South

An Exploratory Qualitative and Quantitative Study into the Effectiveness of Digital Games as a Tool to Enhance the Learning of Introductory Programming

Harmonious and obsessive involvement, self-esteem, and well-being. A longitudinal study on MMORPG players

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