Bettina North

Akademie für Berufliche Bildung · Project Department

The importance of Game-Based Learning (GBL) for student learning is increasingly recognized as beneficial for engagement, creativity and motivation. While further research is needed to explore the multi-faceted tenets of GBL, vocational education teachers may experience difficulties in finding appropriate and relevant materials as well as applying...

The importance of games or game elements in the context of learning (game based learning) has been proven in various studies. Current meta-studies on the effectiveness of GBL show significant effects on learning by integrating games in the classroom (Sailer et.al. 2020, Zainuddina et.al. 2020), particularly in the fields of motivation, cognition, e...

Gegenwärtig bestehen vielfältige Entwicklungspotenziale bezüglich GBL, insbesondere in schulischen Lernkontexten. Die Standardisierung von Lernprozessen und -ergebnissen sowie Lehrerzentrierung wirken sich hinderlich auf den Einsatz neuer Lernformate aus. Dies betrifft auch Berufsschulen, wo ebenso ein „Shift from Teaching to Learning“ stattgefunde...

Despite numerous equity initiatives aimed at increasing participation in higher education, students from regional and remote communities continue to be underrepresented in Australia. This paper presents a scoping review of empirical studies, published between 1991 and 2016, that examined aspirations for higher education of students from regional an...

This paper explores the ways in which one of Australia’s cultural diplomacy initiatives aimed at bringing Australia closer to Asia – the Asialink Arts Residency Program – may provide valuable insights for reimagining cultural diplomacy with a revised understanding of the national interest that reflects the increasingly transnational realities of th...

This issue of M/C Journal explores the notion of "impact" and the capacity of contemporary research work to influence not only academia but the direction of current debates in the public sphere surrounding social, political and cultural agendas. The nine papers selected cover a broad range of topics: experimental research methodologies which confro...