Investigating the impact of integrating self-explanation into an educational game: A pilot study

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6872 LNCS, Issue , 2011, Pages 250-254

  Hsu, Chung Yuan ^a   Tsai, Chin Chung ^b  

^a NATIONAL PINGTUNG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

digital game; Game based learning; science game; self explanation

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL UNDERSTANDING; CONTROL GROUPS; DIGITAL GAMES; EDUCATIONAL GAME; EXPERIMENTAL GROUPS; GAME-BASED LEARNING; PILOT STUDIES; SCIENCE GAME; SELF-EXPLANATION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; E-LEARNING;

STUDENTS;

EID: 80052978322     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-23456-9_49     Document Type: Conference Paper

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