Framing the adoption of serious games in formal education

Electronic Journal of e-Learning

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 159-171

  Arnab, Sylvester ^a   Berta, Riccardo ^b   Earp, Jeffrey ^c   de Sara, Freitas ^a   Popescu, Maria ^d   Romero, Margarida ^a   Stanescu, Ioana ^d   Usart, Mireia ^e  

^a Faculty of Engineering and Computing   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^c Istituto Tecnologie Didattiche   (Italy)

^d Carol I National Defence University   (Romania)

^e ESADE BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Formal learning; Game based learning; Pedagogical issues; Serious games; Teacher's role

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865605805     PISSN: 14794403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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