Assessing the educational values of digital games

Journal of Computer Assisted Learning

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 423-437

  Hong, J C ^a   Cheng, C L ^a   Hwang, M Y ^a   Lee, C K ^a   Chang, H Y ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CENTRAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Assessment of digital games; Game educational values; Game based learning; Online game

Indexed keywords

EID: 69749095466     PISSN: 02664909     EISSN: 13652729     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2729.2009.00319.x     Document Type: Article

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