A synchronous on-line competition software to improve and motivate learning

IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference, EDUCON

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Robles, Gregorio ^a   González Barahona, Jesús M ^a   Moral, Arturo ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

competition; e learning; quizzbowl; serious games

Indexed keywords

INSTANT MESSAGING; QUIZZBOWL; SERIOUS GAMES;

COMPETITION; E-LEARNING; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; STUDENTS; TEACHING;

SOFTWARE TESTING;

EID: 84864140352     PISSN: 21659559     EISSN: 21659567     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EDUCON.2012.6201118     Document Type: Conference Paper

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