Videogame aesthetics and e-Learning: A retro-looking computer game to explain the normal distribution in statistics teaching

Proceedings of the European Conference on Games-based Learning

Volumn 2008-January, Issue , 2008, Pages 341-348

  Nte, Sol ^a,b   Stephens, Richard ^a  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adobe flash; E learning; Games based learning; Normal distribution; Statistics; Videogame

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893976035     PISSN: 20490992     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Review

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