Using a gesture-based Chinese learning game for language learning

Jon-Chao Hong; Ming-Yueh Hwang; Kai-Hsin Tai

EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2015 (Jun 22, 2015) pp. 1217–1222

The present study focused on those who born in Taiwan but raised in their mothers’ homelands during their early years, and involved in the Southeast Asian Heritage Learners of Chinese (SAHLCs) programs that assist with Chinese language learning. The ...

Topics: Teaching/Learning Strategies, User Interface Design

Using an environmental game to enhance students’ environmental protection learning

Jon-Chao Hong; Ming-Yueh Hwang; Kai-Hsin Tai

EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2016 (Jun 28, 2016) pp. 445–449

The purpose of this study was to investigate how the presence of environmental protection knowledge to the primary sequence of problem-solving. Using a task sequence learning paradigm, the present study designed an environmental problem-solving...

Topics: Usability/User Studies, SIG: Learning Design, User Interface Design

Learning Chinese idioms from Chinese learning game

Jon-Chao Hong; Ming-Yueh Hwang; Kai-Hsin Tai

EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2015 (Jun 22, 2015) pp. 1212–1216

Chinese idioms are very essential to reading or writing Chinese and have become the core of Chinese courses. To enhance interest in learning Chinese idioms, the present study developed a Chinese Idiom String Up Game for students to play in the one...

Topics: User Interface Design, Teaching/Learning Strategies

App Game-Based Learning in Relation to Garden Science

Ming-Yueh Hwang; Jon-Chao Hong; Kai-Hsin Tai

EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2016 (Jun 28, 2016) pp. 450–454

Gardens, in the larger context, nature, have long been a component of what educational progressives have associated with real life. In other words such an understanding emphasizes the continued construction and reconstruction of science concept in...

Topics: User Interface Design, SIG: Learning Design, Usability/User Studies

Internet cognitive failure affects learning progress as mediated by cognitive anxiety and flow while playing a Chinese antonym synonym game with interacting verbal–analytical and motor-control

Jon-Chao Hong; Kai-Hsin Tai; Ming-Yueh Hwang; Yen-Chun Kuo

Computers & Education Vol. 100, No. 1 (September 2016) pp. 32–44

According to the person-artifact-task model, the process of gameplay can trigger a range of emotional responses and wide variation in students' behaviors, consequently leading to varying learning outcomes. How internet cognitive failure (ICF) can...

Language: English

Comparing animated and static modes in educational gameplay on user interest, performance and gameplay anxiety

Jon-Chao Hong; Min-Pei Lin; Ming-Yueh Hwang; Kai-Hsin Tai; Yen-Chun Kuo

Computers & Education Vol. 88, No. 1 (October 2015) pp. 109–118

To compare the perception of animated to static mode of gameplay and how it affects the emotional state and performance of playing, this study designed two games, Chinese idiom string up game (CISUG) and Chinese idiom fishing game (CIFG). Seven...

Language: English

Crystallized intelligence affects hedonic and epistemic values to continue playing a game with saliency-based design

Jon-Chao Hong; Ming-Yueh Hwang; Kai-Hsin Tai; Yen-Chun Kuo

Computers & Education Vol. 95, No. 1 (April 2016) pp. 75–84

The purpose of most educational games is to generate students' interest to learn or apply their knowledge. This study designed a new type of human-computer interaction for players to “blow away” the sand shown on the smartphone screen by physically...

Language: English

Using calibration to enhance students' self-confidence in English vocabulary learning relevant to their judgment of over-confidence and predicted by smartphone self-efficacy and English learning anxiety

Jon-Chao Hong; Ming-Yueh Hwang; Kai-Hsin Tai; Yi-Ling Chen

Computers & Education Vol. 72, No. 1 (March 2014) pp. 313–322

In this paper, calibration was introduced to improve English vocabulary learning for learners to reduce the number of repetitions and to improve vocabulary memorization. Thus, an App for the iPhone 4 called English Vocabulary Learning @ Star (EVL@S) ...

Language: English

Self-Efficacy Relevant to Competitive Anxiety and Gameplay Interest in the One-on-One Competition Setting

Jon-Chao Hong; Ming-Yueh Hwang; Kai-Hsin Tai; Pei-Chun Lin

Educational Technology Research and Development Vol. 63, No. 5 (2015) pp. 791–807

Individual gameplay interest is affected by numerous factors and a competition setting is also of importance as there are factors that need to be managed. To understand the motivational variables related to an educational game competition, this...

Parental Monitoring Predicts Students' Prosocial and Impulsive Tendencies Relevant to Consequence-Based Reasoning in a Blended Learning Environment

Jon-Chao Hong; Ming-Yueh Hwang; Kai-Hsin Tai; Yen-Chun Kuo

Interactive Learning Environments Vol. 24, No. 7 (2016) pp. 1534–1551

Consequential reasoning relevant to moral development has not been effectively practised in elementary schools in Taiwan. The present study designed a "To Do or Not To Do" website for students to explore moral dilemma situations and...

An Exploration of Students' Science Learning Interest Related to Their Cognitive Anxiety, Cognitive Load, Self-Confidence and Learning Progress Using Inquiry-Based Learning with an iPad

Jon-Chao Hong; Ming-Yueh Hwang; Kai-Hsin Tai; Chi-Ruei Tsai

Research in Science Education Vol. 47, No. 6 (2017) pp. 1193–1212

Based on the cognitive-affective theory, the present study designed a science inquiry learning model, "predict-observe-explain" (POE), and implemented it in an app called "WhyWhy" to examine the effectiveness of students' science ...

The effects of metacognition on online learning interest and continuance to learn with MOOCs

Ya-hsun Tsai; Chien-hung Lin; Jon-chao Hong; Kai-hsin Tai

Computers & Education Vol. 121, No. 1 (June 2018) pp. 18–29

Developments in technology have made online teacher training applicable to MOOCs, but the validation of MOOCs presents some challenges, including the high dropout rate and low continuance intention to learn via MOOCs. The purpose of this study is to ...

Language: English

Interest maintained and anxiety comparison of static versus animated agents in gameplay

Jon-Chao Hong; Min-Pei Lin; Ming-Yueh Hwang; Kai-Hsin Tai

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2013 (Oct 21, 2013) pp. 1923–1928

In order to compare a static agent to an animated agent, this study designed two types of Chinese idiom games called String-Up for the static agent and Fishing for the animated agent. All participants in this study were 5th and 6th grade elementary...

Topics: Instructional Design, research, Tools & Systems

The Innovativeness and Self-Efficacy Predict the Acceptance of Using iPad2 as a Green Behavior by the Government's Top Administrators

Jon-Chao Hong; Ming-Yueh Hwang; Tzu-Yun Ting; Kai-Hsin Tai; Chih-Chin Lee

Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET Vol. 12, No. 2 (April 2013) pp. 313–320

Apple released the first iPad in 2010, and since then various operating systems have emerged. Many corporations have adopted the use of tablets in efforts toward organizational innovation. Innovation is the motivation for organizations to move...

Practicing abductive reasoning: The correlations between cognitive factors and learning effects

Ming-Yueh Hwang; Jon-Chao Hong; Jian-Hong Ye; Yu-Feng Wu; Kai-Hsin Tai; Ming-Chi Kiu

Computers & Education Vol. 138, No. 1 (September 2019) pp. 33–45

The game design for students to practice reasoning skills is very important for improving learning effectiveness. To date, abductive, inductive and deductive reasoning are considered as equally important for developing students’ thinking skills, but ...

Language: English