Investigating the relationships between informal learning and player involvement in digital games

Learning, Media and Technology

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 321-327

  Iacovides, Ioanna ^a   Aczel, James ^a   Scanlon, Eileen ^a   Woods, Will ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

digital games; informal learning; involvement

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866877988     PISSN: 17439884     EISSN: 17439892     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17439884.2012.641568     Document Type: Article

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