In this review, we investigated game design features that promote engagement and learning in game-based learning (GBL) settings. The aim was to address the lack of empirical evidence on the impact of ...game design on learning outcomes, identify how the design of game-based activities may affect learning and engagement, and develop a set of general recommendations for GBL instructional design. The findings illustrate the impact of key gaming features in GBL at both cognitive and emotional levels. We also identified gaming trends and several key drivers of engagement created by the gaming features embedded within GBL, as well as external factors that may have influences on engagement and learning.
La relevancia acordada a la producción de ciencia ficción desarrollada durante la década de los ochenta en Argentina parece, a cuarenta años de distancia, innegable. El siguiente artículo realiza un ...panorama del período en la hipótesis de que la sensibilidad que se desarrolla entre 1978 y el fin de siglo depende una nueva conceptualización de la ciencia ficción, que atiende a los desarrollos genéricos en tanto que procedimientos específicamente literarios. A la vez, ese modo de lectura habilita una articulación que configura el espacio ficcional y la enunciación bajo la forma de una utopía escéptica.
Literature is depiction of human life, culture and experiences. Literature engulfs both reality and imagination. Through the lens of Mythology one can experience the age old rich culture, rituals, ...practices and more. Lexically Mythology refers to sacred tales that is of real and imaginary. Study of myth and mythology enables one to probe more about ancient rituals and practices. Mythologies are of various types and every nation has its own vivid tales. Indian Mythology is not an exception; it has sumptuous tales about gods, goddesses, super natural agents, artistic elements, folklore and more. As ages pass by few tales are drew a blank, still many novelists retained the essence of mythology by retelling such myths in different genres of literature. Novelists such as Chitra Bannerjeee Divakaruni, Amish Tripathi, Kavita Kane, Devdutt Pattnaik and many writers restored the past through their retellings. In this paper I propose to show how mythology been retold in a novel way. Here I have chosen the novels of the eminent writer Devdutt Pattnaik and his works such as 7Secrets of Shiva, The Book of Ram, The Goddess in India, Brahma The Creator, Shikhandi: and other tales, 7 Secrets of the Goddess, Jaya: An Illustrated Retelling of The Mahabarata, Myth=Mithya, Sita: An Illustrated Retelling of the Ramayana, My Gita and more. Through his retellings the ancient epics is retouched with the same grandeur and value. This paper aims at showcasing that these retellings can actually bring back the myths to cherish more and imbibe in one's life. Moreover these folklores and myths also have answers to many unsolved puzzles like Queer identity, laws of karma, nature's connection with mankind, and more._
We develop and test the idea that public appreciation for authentic lowbrow culture affords an effective way for certain elites to address feelings of authenticity-insecurity arising from "high ...status denigration" (Hahl and Zuckerman 2014). This argument, which builds on recent sociological research on the "search for authenticity" (e.g., Grazian 2005) and on Bourdieu's (1993) notion of artistic "disinterestedness," is validated through experiments with U.S. subjects in the context of "outsider" art (Fine 2004). The first study demonstrates that preference for lowbrow culture perceived to be authentic is higher when individuals feel insecure in their authenticity because they attained status in a context where extrinsic incentives are salient. The second study demonstrates that audiences perceive the members of erstwhile denigrated high-status categories to be more authentic if they consume lowbrow culture, but only if the cultural producer is perceived as authentic. We conclude by noting how this "authenticity-by-appreciation" effect might be complementary to distinction-seeking as a motivation for elite cultural omnivorousness, and we draw broader implications for when and why particular forms of culture are in demand.
Der Aufsatz untersucht, wie Gottscheds „Jubelode auf das dritte Jahrhundert der edlen Buchdruckerkunst“, 1740 zum 300. Jubiläum gedruckt, den Buchdruck mit beweglichen Lettern als Distributionsmedium ...für Wissen und Tugend feiert – und dabei daran mitarbeitet, dass Aufklärung in Mythos zurückschlägt. Zum einen inszeniert der Text den Buchdruck als Wunderwaffe im Kulturkrieg mit Frankreich und fordert die Deutschen dazu auf, ihn als Propagandamaschine sowie als deutschen Mythos zu instrumentalisieren, um einen kollektiven Minderwertigkeitskomplex zu heilen. Zum anderen macht die Ode selbst von einer kommunikativen Asymmetrie und einer Amplifikation der gedruckten Stimme Gebrauch, wie hier im Dialog mit medientheoretischen Auseinandersetzungen mit der Gattung, der Aufklärung und der akustischen Propaganda des Nationalsozialismus argumentiert wird. Anhand eines close reading einer wenig bekannten Ode sowie einer Rede Gottscheds zum selben Anlass beleuchtet der Beitrag eine Verbindung, die zwei Jahrhunderte nach der „Jubelode“ Horkheimer und Adorno andeuten, wenn sie das Radio als die „sublimierte Druckerpresse“ bezeichnen.
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This study explored the relationship between linguistic features and the rated quality of letters of application (LAs) and argumentative essays (AEs) composed in English by Chinese ...college-level English as a foreign language (EFL) learners. A corpus of 260 LAs and 260 AEs were analyzed via a confirmatory factor analysis. Latent variables were EFL writing quality, captured by writing scores, and lexical sophistication, syntactic complexity, and cohesion, each captured by different linguistic features in the two genres of writing. Results indicated that lexical decision times, moving average type-token ratio with a 50-word window, and complex nominals per clause explained 55.5 per cent of the variance in the holistic scores of both genres of writing. This pattern of predictivity was further validated with a test corpus of 110 LAs and 110 AEs, revealing that, albeit differing in genre, higher-rated LAs and AEs were likely to contain more sophisticated words and complex nominals and exhibit a higher type-token ratio with a 50-word window. These findings help enrich our understanding of the shared features of different genres of EFL writing and have potentially useful implications for EFL writing pedagogy and assessment.
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