New Tools in Education: Development and Learning Effectiveness of a Computer Application for Use in a University Biology Curriculum

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<p>Feasibility of Kahoot! as a Real-Time Assessment Tool in (Histo-)pathology Classroom Teaching</p>

“…Online gamification platforms will be used increasingly as digital tools in the medical education. 6,10,11 The enormous digital innovations in medicine will produce new powerful opportunities for medical education. Additionally, it could be empirically demonstrated that gaming may be more effective than traditional teaching methods 12,13 due to increased student motivation and engagement.…”

“…9 Additional investigations have shown that game-based learning has several benefits compared to conventional teaching methods. 10,11 Indeed, including the concept of gamification in medical teaching could increase the motivation of the students and subsequently significantly improve learning behavior. 12,13 Today, a number of software platforms are available to gamificate the course contents through online applications such as Kahoot!, Quizziz, Quizlet, and Socrative.…”

Computational Thinking Evaluation Tool Development for Early Childhood Software Education

“…As such, software education is gradually expanding, and studies on teaching methods, learning methods, and effectiveness verification are actively being conducted, but studies on evaluation are relatively insufficient [2] - [5]. Since cultivation of computational thinking is the ultimate purpose of software education, although how to evaluate the improvement of computational thinking is a very important issue, the research on this is relatively incomplete [6] - [10].…”