Games, simulations, and visual metaphors in education: Antagonism between enjoyment and learning;Affordance analysis – Matching learning tasks with learning technologies;Spiele, Simulationen und visuelle Metaphern in der Erziehung: Der Antagonismus zwischen Lust und Lernen;Juegos, simulación y metáforas visuales en educación: La oposición placer versus el aprendizage

Educational Media International

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 77-92

  Rieber, Lloyd P ^a   Noah, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Games; Metaphors; Motivation; Simulations; Visualization

Indexed keywords

EID: 77958104928     PISSN: 09523987     EISSN: 14695790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09523980802107096     Document Type: Article

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