A review of applications of computer games in education and training

Proceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Arango, Felipe ^a   Aziz, El Sayed ^a   Esche, Sven K ^a   Chassapis, Constantin ^a  

^a Stevens Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Online laboratory; Remote experiment; Scheduling; Sharing; Virtual experiment

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; EDUCATION COMPUTING; EMPLOYMENT; EXPERIMENTS; GAME THEORY; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; SCHEDULING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS; CAREER DEVELOPMENT; COLLABORATIVE ACTIVITIES; COMPUTER GAME ENGINES; COMPUTER GAMES; CONTENT DISTRIBUTIONS; EDUCATION AND TRAININGS; EDUCATIONAL LABORATORIES; HUMAN BEHAVIORS; INSTRUCTIONAL PURPOSE; INTERACTIVE GAMES; LIFE-LONG LEARNING; ONLINE LABORATORY; REMOTE EXPERIMENT; REMOTE USERS; RESEARCH OBJECTIVES; SHARING; TRAINING AND EDUCATIONS; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; VIRTUAL EXPERIMENT;

PERSONNEL TRAINING;

EID: 60549090399     PISSN: 15394565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/FIE.2008.4720514     Document Type: Conference Paper

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