Discovery-based games for learning software

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 2083-2086

  Dong, Tao ^a   Dontcheva, Mira ^b   Joseph, Diana ^b   Karahalios, Karrie ^c   Newman, Mark W ^a   Ackerman, Mark S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b ADOBE RESEARCH   (United States)

^c University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Discovery learning; Learning games; Software training

Indexed keywords

ADOBE PHOTOSHOP; COMPLEX SOFTWARE; DISCOVERY LEARNING; DISCOVERY-BASED LEARNING; EFFECTIVE LEARNING; JIGSAW PUZZLES; LEARNING GAME; LEARNING SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE TRAINING; TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

TEACHING;

EID: 84862089438     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2207676.2208358     Document Type: Conference Paper

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