A systematic survey of games used for software engineering education

Modern Applied Science

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 28-43

  Caulfield, Craig ^a   Xia, Jianhong Cecilia ^b   Veal, David ^a   Paul Maj, S ^a  

^a EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Project management education; Serious games; Software engineering

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856249018     PISSN: 19131844     EISSN: 19131852     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5539/mas.v5n6p28     Document Type: Article

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