Exploring the potential of role play in higher education: development of a typology and teacher guidelines

D Rao, I Stupans - Innovations in Education and Teaching …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Role-play, in which learners act out roles in case scenarios, appears to be used across a
broad range of discipline areas to address learning across the cognitive, psychomotor and …

Generating a learning stance through perspective-taking in a virtual environment

R Lindgren - Computers in Human Behavior, 2012 - Elsevier
Emerging media technologies such as virtual environments present a unique opportunity to
examine the effects of perspective-taking on processes of human learning. In these …

Learning through role-playing games: an approach for active learning and teaching

MAF Randi, HF Carvalho - Revista Brasileira de Educação Médica, 2013 - educa.fcc.org.br
Aprendizagem através de Role-Playing Games: uma Abordagem para a Educação Ativa. Page
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Negotiating energy dynamics through embodied action in a materially structured environment

RE Scherr, HG Close, EW Close, VJ Flood… - Physical Review Special …, 2013 - APS
We provide evidence that a learning activity called Energy Theater engages learners with
key conceptual issues in the learning of energy, including disambiguating matter flow and …

Enacting Conceptual Metaphor through Blending: Learning activities embodying the substance metaphor for energy

HG Close, RE Scherr - Conceptual metaphor and embodied …, 2018 - api.taylorfrancis.com
We demonstrate that a particular blended learning space is especially productive in
developingunderstanding of energy transfers and transformations. In this blended space …

SharedPhys: Live physiological sensing, whole-body interaction, and large-screen visualizations to support shared inquiry experiences

S Kang, L Norooz, V Oguamanam, AC Plane… - Proceedings of the the …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
We present and evaluate a new mixed-reality tool called SharedPhys, which tightly
integrates real-time physiological sensing, whole-body interaction, and responsive large …

Embodied cognition through participatory simulation and mathematical description: Supporting mechanistic reasoning and explanation

PJ Weinberg, EK Sorensen‐Weinberg - Science Education, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Embodied cognition has been a useful means to support learning in science education. In
this article, we describe a model of embodied cognition through analogical mapping that is …

Understanding protein synthesis: a role-play approach in large undergraduate human anatomy and physiology classes

D Sturges, TW Maurer, O Cole - Advances in Physiology …, 2009 - journals.physiology.org
This study investigated the effectiveness of role play in a large undergraduate science class.
The targeted population consisted of 298 students enrolled in 2 sections of an …

Nueva propuesta teórica sobre obstáculos epistemológicos de aprendizaje. El caso del metabolismo de los carbohidratos

SJ Garófalo, M Alonso, L Galagovsky - Enseñanza de las ciencias: revista …, 2014 - raco.cat
La utilización de tres modelos científicos definidos ad hoc sobre el metabolismo de los
hidratos de carbono permitió analizar numerosos errores detectados en el aprendizaje de …

Using kinesthetic activities to teach Ptolemaic and Copernican retrograde motion

T Richards - Science & education, 2012 - Springer
This paper describes a method for teaching planetary retrograde motion, and the Ptolemaic
and Copernican accounts of retrograde motion, by means of a series kinesthetic learning …