Designing and investigating game tasks for supporting collaborative learning

4th European Conference on Games Based Learning 2010, ECGBL 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 291-298

  Oksanen, Kimmo ^a   Hämäläinen, Raija ^a   Mannila, Birgitta ^b   Manninen, Tony ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b Jyväskylä College   (Finland)

^c LudoCraft Ltd   (Finland)

Author keywords

Computer supported collaborative learning; Game design; Game task; Multiplayer puzzles; Psychophysiological methods

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; HEART;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COLLABORATIVE LEARNING; GAME DESIGN; GAME TASK; MULTIPLAYERS; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGICAL METHODS;

COMPUTER GAMES;

EID: 84888118832     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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