Enhancing students' spatial ability by implementing a digital game

Proceedings - ICCE 2008: 16th International Conference on Computers in Education

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 963-964

  You, Jia Hau ^a   Chuang, Tsung Yen ^a   Chen, Wei Fan ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF TAINAN   (Taiwan)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital game; Game based learning; Spatial ability

Indexed keywords

3D MODELS; 3D STUDIO MAX; DIGITAL GAMES; GAME-BASED LEARNING; PHOTOSHOP; SPATIAL ABILITIES; VIRTOOLS; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MEMORY;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; THREE DIMENSIONAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EDUCATION COMPUTING;

EID: 84863075937     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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