Digital gaming as a vehicle for learning

Proceedings of the Thirty-Seventh SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 394-395

  Wolz, Ursula ^a   Barnes, Tiffany ^b   Parberry, Ian ^c   Wick, Michael ^d  

^a The College of New Jersey   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Charlotte   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN EAU CLAIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer science education; Digital games; Graphics; Interactive multimedia

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SCIENCE; CURRICULA; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MULTIMEDIA SERVICES; VIRTUAL REALITY;

DIGITAL GAMES; INTERACTIVE MULTIMEDIA;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 37849007395     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1121341.1121463     Document Type: Conference Paper

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