Is less actually more? The usefulness of educational mini-games

Proceedings - The 7th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 533-537

  Frazer, Alex ^a   Argles, David ^a   Wills, Gary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAME THEORY;

BLENDED LEARNINGS; EDUCATIONAL GAMINGS; EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS; EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES; FUTURE WORKS; IMMERSIVE; INFORMED DECISIONS; RELEVANT INFORMATIONS; STRUCTURED REVIEWS;

EDUCATION;

EID: 47649101537     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICALT.2007.173     Document Type: Conference Paper

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