Improving student creativity with gamification and virtual worlds

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 95-98

  Barata, Gabriel ^a   Gama, Sandra ^a   Fonseca, Manuel J ^a   Gonçalves, Daniel ^a  

^a INESC ID   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Creativity; Education; Gamification; Student participation; Virtual worlds

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; GRADING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

CREATIVITY; EXPLORATORY STUDIES; GAMIFICATION; STUDENT PARTICIPATION; VIRTUAL WORLDS;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84905491340     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2583008.2583023     Document Type: Conference Paper

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