Pokémon GO as a Cognitive and Societal Development Tool for Personalised Learning

2022 ◽  
pp. 759-784
Author(s):  
Robert Costello ◽  
Murray Lambert
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Mobile Learning ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Significant Evidence ◽  
Personalised Learning ◽  
Health And Wellbeing ◽  
Development Tool ◽  
Pokémon Go ◽  
Sample Set

The present research develops and tests a theoretical gamification model (GM) that explores the use of mobile learning (ML) and massively multiplayer online (MMO) games to strengthen group prospection of teams and improve retention. The GM used Pokémon GO to enable higher education students to engage in activities and challenges with a view to observe the impacts on health and wellbeing through collection of quantitative and qualitative data. The data that was collected involved a sample set (N = 50) of participants within the general educational sector. The model constructs were measured throughout the first academic semester, from September 2018 to February 2019. There is significant evidence to show that the use of ML in the classroom is beneficial depending on the influences from and engagement with participants. The contributions from these findings should provide the basics for further research into different studies involving MMOs and ML or gamification studies.

Pokémon GO as a Cognitive and Societal Development Tool for Personalised Learning

2022 ◽  
pp. 381-407
Author(s):  
Robert Costello ◽  
Murray Lambert
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Mobile Learning ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Significant Evidence ◽  
Personalised Learning ◽  
Health And Wellbeing ◽  
Development Tool ◽  
Pokémon Go ◽  
Sample Set

The present research develops and tests a theoretical gamification model (GM) that explores the use of mobile learning (ML) and massively multiplayer online (MMO) games to strengthen group prospection of teams and improve retention. The GM used Pokémon GO to enable higher education students to engage in activities and challenges with a view to observe the impacts on health and wellbeing through collection of quantitative and qualitative data. The data that was collected involved a sample set (N = 50) of participants within the general educational sector. The model constructs were measured throughout the first academic semester, from September 2018 to February 2019. There is significant evidence to show that the use of ML in the classroom is beneficial depending on the influences from and engagement with participants. The contributions from these findings should provide the basics for further research into different studies involving MMOs and ML or gamification studies.

Pokémon GO as a Cognitive and Societal Development Tool for Personalised Learning

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-30
Author(s):  
Robert Costello ◽  
Murray Lambert
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Mobile Learning ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Significant Evidence ◽  
Personalised Learning ◽  
Health And Wellbeing ◽  
Development Tool ◽  
Pokémon Go ◽  
Sample Set

The present research develops and tests a theoretical gamification model (GM) that explores the use of mobile learning (ML) and massively multiplayer online (MMO) games to strengthen group prospection of teams and improve retention. The GM used Pokémon GO to enable higher education students to engage in activities and challenges with a view to observe the impacts on health and wellbeing through collection of quantitative and qualitative data. The data that was collected involved a sample set (N = 50) of participants within the general educational sector. The model constructs were measured throughout the first academic semester, from September 2018 to February 2019. There is significant evidence to show that the use of ML in the classroom is beneficial depending on the influences from and engagement with participants. The contributions from these findings should provide the basics for further research into different studies involving MMOs and ML or gamification studies.

An analysis of the influence of a mobile learning application on the learning outcomes of higher education students

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 325-334 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aijaz Ahmed Arain ◽  
Zahid Hussain ◽  
Wajid H. Rizvi ◽  
Muhammad Saleem Vighio
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Mobile Learning ◽  
Education Students

scholarly journals E-mail Literacy in Higher Education Academic Settings

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 29
Author(s):  
Sümeyye Konuk
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Administrative Staff ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Subject Line ◽  
Academic Settings ◽  
Education Academic ◽  
Functional Explanations ◽  
Negative Feelings

The research purpose was to identify (1) the problems encountered by academic and administrative staff in emails received from students, (2) positive and negative qualities of the authentic emails of higher education students, (3) functional explanations of the academic email, (4) the problems encountered by students in emails received from academic and administrative staff, and (5) higher education students’ email writing awareness. An exploratory sequential mixed design was used. The study group consisted of 15 staff and 1064 higher education students. The qualitative data were collected from staff interviews and 80 authentic emails of students. And a survey was prepared based on qualitative data and then quantitative data were collected. The problems encountered by staff are style, carelessness, articulacy problem, spelling and punctuation problem, email incivility. The negative qualities of authentic emails are as follows: not using institutional username, formal language, paragraph structure in the email body, salutation, closing statement, contact information; username without name and surname, blank subject line, spelling and punctuation problems, sloppy wording, lack of self-introduction. Non-descriptive, late, and short answers, not getting answers, sloppy answers, emails with negative feelings disturbed students. Students’ awareness of writing academic emails displayed a more positive picture than the emails they wrote. Items in which students’ awareness is weak are as follows: trying to reflect their feelings to email, using punctuation marks to convey the feeling, writing email for long and complex matter, using paragraph structure, adding contact details, CC - BCC. Research results were discussed with relevant literature.

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