Activity-based scenario design, development, and assessment in serious games

Gaming and Cognition: Theories and Practice from the Learning Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 213-225

  Marsh, Tim ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

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EID: 84874353033     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-717-6.ch010     Document Type: Chapter

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