Adaptive role playing games: An immersive approach for problem based learning

Educational Technology and Society

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 110-124

  Sancho, Pilar ^a   Moreno Ger, Pablo ^a   Fuentes Fernández, Rubén ^a   Fernández Manjón, Baltasar ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Educational games; Learning Management System interoperability; Learning Objects meta data; Learning Objects model

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954277162     PISSN: 11763647     EISSN: 14364522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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