Impasse-driven learning in the context of video games

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1530-1541

  Blumberg, Fran C ^a   Rosenthal, Sheryl F ^a   Randall, John D ^b  

^a Graduate School of Education   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Problem solving; Video games

Indexed keywords

LEARNING SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

INFREQUENT PLAYERS; VIDEO GAMES;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 42249108500     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2007.05.010     Document Type: Article

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