The effect of learning mechanics design on learning outcomes in a computer-based geometry game

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7516 LNCS, Issue , 2012, Pages 65-71

  Plass, Jan L ^a,b,c   Homer, Bruce D ^a,b,c   Hayward, Elizabeth O ^a,b,c   Frye, Jonathan ^a,b,c   Huang, Tsu Ting ^a,b,c   Biles, Melissa ^a,b,c   Stein, Murphy ^a,b,c   Perlin, Ken ^a,b,c  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; LEARNING OUTCOME; MIDDLE SCHOOL;

E-LEARNING; HEALTH; MECHANICS; SPORTS;

COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS;

EID: 84871401510     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-33466-5_7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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