Using Multi-User Virtual Environments to Simulate Authentic Scientific Practice and Enhance Student Engagement

Serious Educational Games: from Theory to Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 25-38

  Ketelhut, Diane Jass ^a   Clarke, Jody ^b   Nelson, Brian C ^c   Dukas, Geordie ^b  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1163/9789087903817_004     Document Type: Chapter

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