The use of instructional games in foreign language classrooms has a lot of potential. This potential helped pushing the spread of game use, but it was faced with a lot of barriers.

The current study intended to investigate the ...

Online multiplayer video games are characterized by competitiveness and collaboration: the former resonates with toxicity and the latter with civic values. While it is urgent to consider efficient ways to cope with toxicity, it is worth ...

The fields of gamification and game-based learning are growing and changing quickly, with researchers investigating the use of gamification in education using various methods and in numerous case studies, however, no research investigates the ...

Fantasy sports are a rapidly growing complement to the sports industry and recent research has explored the mental health experiences of those who play the game.

This study aimed to test the findings from two such studies (Wilkins et ...

Socialization during gaming is an important aspect of gaming for people with and without disabilities. However, we know little about how gamers with disabilities play with others.

This study investigated the social gaming experiences of ...

City simulation games provide players a gaming experience by simulating different aspects of the real city. While there is an increasing scholarly interest in games for social learning and education, little research has been conducted to ...

The gaming industry is experiencing rapid growth, and videogames in various forms have become an integral part of our daily routines. While research has delved into motivations for playing specific types of videogames, such as online ...

Serious games and game-based learning are widely used in education. Gaming in logistics education relies on serious gaming with no or less consideration on enjoyment.

This study examines in a first step whether and if so, how (...

Social learning generates reframing when individual and collective values are reflected. This reframing enables community members to move from personal to collective views and actions, resulting in valuable outcomes that improve the community'...

Student teachers commonly struggle to apply theoretical knowledge to their teaching. This theory-practice gap is a serious problem in teacher education. Over the past decade, simulations and serious games have been shown as an effective way ...

This study explores the emotional experiences of players in online, text-based tabletop role-playing games (TTRPGs) and their potential impact on players. The goal is to understand the therapeutic and educational possibilities arising from ...

With the rapid expansion of the esports industry, many esports training programs and academies have emerged. According to research, esports may lead to cognitive, metacognitive, academic and professional competencies if appropriately supported (...

Over the past few years, there has been extensive discussion and research on social-emotional learning (SEL) in formal educational settings. However, there is limited research on SEL in informal learning contexts, including online sites such ...

This article focuses on communication in team-based esports, particularly in the ways that callouts enable players in team-based First-Person Shooters (FPS) to collaboratively link their own perception and awareness of in-game actions to that ...

Research into transgressive play experiences in games has grown in recent years. In this article, we explore the potential for transgressive play to be constructive in multiplayer settings—something we conceptualize as “benevolent ...

This study explores what pre-service teachers identify as uncertainties within two climate board games and to what aspects of reality they relate these uncertainties, if at all. Should games be suitable resources for teaching topics ...

Due to the social nature of esports (i.e., organized video game competitions), recognizing common values and norms can be leveraged as a positive driver in online gaming communities. Different game categories such as sports simulation (...