Increase Your Grades with… Video Games
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A report from the University of Central Florida has concluded that "immersive educational video games" can improve the grades of students.
Researchers observed students over an 18-week period - now there's a tough assignment for the students - as they played the educational games and then took benchmark exams afterward, showing a marked improvement in scores. The study also showed that these types of games - and this type of immersive learning - should become more common in classrooms of the future, as both students and teachers benefit greatly from this learning paradigm.
The students played DimensionM educational video games, using their ...