Learning from games: Does collaboration help?

British Journal of Educational Technology

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 655-664

  Van Der Meij, Hans ^a   Albers, Eefje ^b   Leemkuil, Henny ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b Bright Alley in Utrecht ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIAL OFF THE SHELVES; EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS;

EID: 79958200211     PISSN: 00071013     EISSN: 14678535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8535.2010.01067.x     Document Type: Article

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