Effects of object building activities in second life on players' spatial reasoning

Proceedings - 2nd IEEE International Conference on Digital Game and Intelligent Toy Enhanced Learning, DIGITEL 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 62-69

  Hwang, Jihyun ^a   Park, Hyungsung ^a   Cha, Jiseon ^a   Shin, Bokjin ^a  

^a Korea National University of Education   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS; DEDUCTIVE REASONING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEARNING STYLE; NEW MEDIA; SECOND LIFE; SPATIAL REASONING; UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS; VISUALIZATION METHOD;

ABSTRACTING; GAME THEORY; TEACHING;

COLLEGE BUILDINGS;

EID: 67549125036     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DIGITEL.2008.14     Document Type: Conference Paper

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