Massively multiplayer online games (MMOs) in the new media classroom

Educational Technology and Society

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 160-172

  Delwiche, Aaron ^a  

^a TRINITY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Educational technology; Game design; Situated learning; Video games learning; Virtual environments

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746928730     PISSN: 11763647     EISSN: 14364522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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