Contrasts in student engagement, meaning-making, dislikes, and challenges in a discovery-based program of game design learning

Educational Technology Research and Development

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 267-289

  Reynolds, Rebecca ^a   Caperton, Idit Harel ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b World Wide Workshop Foundation   (United States)

Author keywords

Blog; Cognitive load; Community of practice; Constructionism; Design based research; Digital divide; Digital literacy; Discovery based learning; Game design; Globaloria; Information literacy; Productive failure; Project based learning; Self determination theory; Social learning system; Social media; West Virginia; Wiki

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952818105     PISSN: 10421629     EISSN: 15566501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11423-011-9191-8     Document Type: Article

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