The construction of an online competitive game-based learning system for junior high school students

Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 214-227

  Cheng, Yuh Ming ^a   Kuo, Sheng Huang ^a   Lou, Shi Jer ^b   Shih, Ru Chu ^b  

^a SHU TE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

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

Author keywords

Freeware; Junior high school student; Online competitive game based learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859405958     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13036521     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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