Designing multimedia games for young children's taxonomic concept development

Computers and Education

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1037-1051

  Sung, Yao Ting ^a   Chang, Kuo En ^a   Lee, Meng Da ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Classification; Cognitive development; Multimedia games; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTER SOFTWARE; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; MULTIMEDIA SERVICES; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; MULTIMEDIA GAMES;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 38649090386     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2006.07.011     Document Type: Article

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