Exploring the factors influencing learning effectiveness in digital gamebased learning

Educational Technology and Society

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 240-250

  Tsai, Fu Hsing ^a   Yu, Kuang Chao ^b   Hsiao, Hsien Sheng ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHIAYI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Digital game based learning; Knowledge acquisition; Learning effectiveness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873830332     PISSN: 11763647     EISSN: 14364522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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