Serious games for geographical field skills: An exploration

2nd International Conference on Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications, VS-GAMES 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 71-74

  Ashfield, Stuart ^a   Jarvis, Claire ^a   Kaduk, Joerg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Field skills; Geography; Learning; Presence

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATIVE LEARNING; GEOGRAPHY LEARNING; SERIOUS GAMES; SERIOUS GAMING;

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS;

EID: 77952968846     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VS-GAMES.2010.18     Document Type: Conference Paper

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