Learning by substitutive Competition: Nurturing My-Pet for game competition based on open learner model

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 124-131

  Chen, Zhi Hong ^a   Chan, Tak Wai ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION DESIGN; ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS; LEARNER MODEL; LEARNING EFFICIENCY; SYSTEM EVALUATION; VIRTUAL CHARACTER;

EDUCATION; GAME THEORY;

COMPETITION;

EID: 67549144166     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DIGITEL.2008.36     Document Type: Conference Paper

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