Making a connection: Game genres, game characteristics, and teaching structures

Gaming and Cognition: Theories and Practice from the Learning Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 189-212

  Charsky, Dennis ^a  

^a ITHACA COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 78650173343     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-717-6.ch009     Document Type: Chapter

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