Educational games - Are they worth the Effort?: A literature survey of the effectiveness of serious games

2013 5th International Conference on Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications, VS-GAMES 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Backlund, Per ^a   Hendrix, Maurice ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SKÖVDE   (Sweden)

^b Faculty of Engineering and Computing   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

education; effectiveness; games; literature survey

Indexed keywords

EFFECTIVENESS; ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; GAME-BASED LEARNING; GAMES; HIGHER EDUCATION; LITERATURE SURVEY; SECONDARY SCHOOLS;

EDUCATION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; SURVEYS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 84889022314     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VS-GAMES.2013.6624226     Document Type: Conference Paper

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