Children, engagement and enjoyment in digital narrative

ASCILITE 2010 - The Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 475-483

  Karimi, Arafeh ^a   Lim, Yan Peng ^a  

^a MULTIMEDIA UNIVERSITY   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Children; Digital narrative; Engagement; Enjoyment; Interactivity

Indexed keywords

CHILDREN; DIGITAL NARRATIVES; ENGAGEMENT; ENJOYMENT; INTERACTIVITY;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 84870734315     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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