Creative learning with serious games

International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning

Volumn 5, Issue SPECIAL ISSUE 2, 2010, Pages 4-6

  Protopsaltis, Aristidis ^a   Pannese, Lucia ^b   Hetzner, Sonia ^c   Pappa, Dimitra ^d   de Freitas, Sara ^a  

^a Faculty of Engineering and Computing   (United Kingdom)

^b imaginary srl   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^d INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Creative learning; Experiential Learning; Game Based Learning; Serious games; Storytelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866859587     PISSN: 18688799     EISSN: 18630383     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3991/ijet.v5s3.1495     Document Type: Editorial

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