Creating educational gamelets

Educating Learning Technology Designers: Guiding and Inspiring Creators of Innovative Educational Tools

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 203-229

  Lewis, Clayton ^a,b   Repenning, Alexander ^b,c  

^a Institute of Cognitive Science   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LUGANO   (Switzerland)

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EID: 77952207586     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203357217     Document Type: Chapter

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