Designing E-Learning games for rural children in India: A format for balancinq learning with fun

Proceedings of the Conference on Designing Interactive Systems: Processes, Practices, Methods, and Techniques, DIS

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 58-67

  Kam, Matthew ^a   Agarwal, Aishvarya ^b   Kumar, Anuj ^c   Lal, Siddhartha ^c   Mathur, Akhil ^c   Tewari, Anuj ^c   Canny, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GUWAHATI   (India)

^c DHIRUBHAI AMBANI INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Cellphone; Developing world; Digital divide; E learning; English as a second language; Games; Language learning; Mobile games; Mobile learning; Serious games; Third world

Indexed keywords

E-LEARNING; GAME THEORY; INTERNET; LINGUISTICS; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; TELEPHONE; TELEPHONE SETS;

CELLPHONE; DEVELOPING WORLD; DIGITAL DIVIDE; ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE; GAMES; LANGUAGE LEARNING; MOBILE GAMES; MOBILE LEARNING; SERIOUS GAMES; THIRD WORLD;

EDUCATION;

EID: 57549109073     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1394445.1394452     Document Type: Conference Paper

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