A narrative metaphor to facilitate educational game authoring

Computers and Education

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 590-599

  Marchiori, Eugenio J ^a   Torrente, Javier ^a   Del Blanco, Ángel ^a   Moreno Ger, Pablo ^a   Sancho, Pilar ^a   Fernández Manjón, Baltasar ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Authoring tools and methods; Improving classroom teaching; Serious games

Indexed keywords

ADVENTURE GAMES; AUTHORING TOOLS AND METHODS; CREATION PROCESS; EDUCATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS; EDUCATIONAL GAME; EDUCATIONAL VIDEOS; END-USERS; FORMATIVE EVALUATION; IMPROVING CLASSROOM TEACHING; NARRATIVITY; SERIOUS GAMES; VIDEO GAME; VISUAL LANGUAGE;

QUALITY CONTROL; SOFTWARE DESIGN; TEACHING;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 80053440229     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2011.09.017     Document Type: Article

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