What can breakdowns and breakthroughs tell us about learning and involvement experienced during game-play?

Proceedings of the European Conference on Games-based Learning

Volumn 2011-January, Issue , 2011, Pages 275-281

  Iacovides, Ioanna ^a   Aczel, James ^a   Scanlon, Eileen ^a   Woods, Will ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Breakdowns; Breakthroughs; Informal learning; Involvement

Indexed keywords

BREAKDOWNS; BREAKTHROUGHS; EDUCATIONAL SETTINGS; HOW PEOPLE LEARN; INFORMAL LEARNING; INVOLVEMENT; LEARNING EXPERIENCES; MULTIPLE-CASE STUDY;

EID: 84900553655     PISSN: 20490992     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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