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Single-player. NeuroRacer is a video game designed by a team of researchers at the University of California, San Francisco led by Adam Gazzaley as a way to help with mental cognition. It was designed as an " Adam Gazzaley intervention" for "top-down modulation deficits in older adults." [1] A study on 60- to 85-year-olds showed that the ...
Miscellaneous. Genre. Game show. First aired. 27 February 2007; 17 years ago (2007-02-27) Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader? is a game show franchise that was co-created and produced by Mark Burnett, Barry Poznick and John Stevens. Adult contestants answer questions, as if they came from an elementary grade school quiz.
International student. International students or exchange students, also known as foreign students, are students who undertake all or part of their secondary or tertiary education in a country other than their own. In 2021, there were over 6.39 million international students, up from 5.12 million in 2016. The most popular destinations were the ...
Educational games are games explicitly designed with educational purposes, or which have incidental or secondary educational value. All types of games may be used in an educational environment, however educational games are games that are designed to help people learn about certain subjects, expand concepts, reinforce development, understand a historical event or culture, or assist them in ...
In the 2008–09 academic year, the five countries US students chose to study abroad in most were the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, France, and China. [2][3] The total number of US students studying abroad during 2008–2009 was 260,327, [4] compared to 262,416 the previous year, a modest decline of 0.8%. In the 2011–2012 academic year ...
Video game industry. An educational video game is a video game that provides learning or training value to the player. Edutainment describes an intentional merger of video games and educational software into a single product (and could therefore also comprise more serious titles sometimes described under children's learning software).
Founded in 1938, the International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE) has its permanent secretariat in Oslo, Norway. It is currently partly funded by a grant from the Government of Norway and has been hosted in Oslo since 1988. Since 1960, ICDE has a partnership with UNESCO. ICDE is a registered not-for-profit organization in Norway ...
Student migration. Student migration is the movement of students who study outside their country of birth or citizenship for a period of 12 months or more. [1] During the period of globalization, the internationalisation of higher education increased dramatically and it has become a market driven activity. With the rapid rise of international ...