Playing in school or at home? an exploration of the effects of context on educational game experience

Electronic Journal of e-Learning

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 199-208

  De Grove, Frederik ^a   Van Looy, Jan ^a   Neys, Joyce ^b   Jansz, Jeroen ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Context; Game experience; Game based learning; Serious games; Situated play

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865478348     PISSN: 14794403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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