A study on exploiting commercial digital games into school context

Educational Technology and Society

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 15-27

  Panoutsopoulos, Hercules ^a   Sampson, Demetrios G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PIRAEUS   (Greece)

^b INFORMATICS AND TELEMATICS INSTITUTE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Commercial off the shelf games; Game supported educational activities; School math teaching and learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864412301     PISSN: 11763647     EISSN: 14364522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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