The design of an analogical encoding tool for game-based virtual learning environments

British Journal of Educational Technology

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 429-437

  Williams, Douglas ^a   Ma, Yuxin ^a   Feist, Steven ^a   Richard, Charles E ^a   Prejean, Louise ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER-BASED SCAFFOLDS; KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER; PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING; VIRTUAL LEARNING;

CONTEXT SENSITIVE GRAMMARS; IMAGE CODING; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; PROBLEM SOLVING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 34247377384     PISSN: 00071013     EISSN: 14678535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8535.2007.00707.x     Document Type: Article

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