Enjoy and learn with educational games: Examining factors affecting learning performance

Computers and Education

Volumn 68, Issue , 2013, Pages 429-439

  Giannakos, Michail N ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Evaluation of CAL systems; Learning communities; Media in education; Secondary education

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDINAL FACTORS; BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS; EVALUATION OF CAL SYSTEMS; EXPERIMENTAL GROUPS; LEARNING COMMUNITY; LEARNING PERFORMANCE; MEDIA IN EDUCATION; TRADITIONAL INSTRUCTION;

EXPERIMENTS; GYMNASIUMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; STUDENTS;

EDUCATION COMPUTING;

EID: 84880059260     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2013.06.005     Document Type: Article

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