Learning through playing for or against each other? Promoting collaborative learning in digital game based learning

ECIS 2012 - Proceedings of the 20th European Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Romero, Margarida ^a   Usart, Mireia ^a   Ott, Michela ^b   Earp, Jeffrey ^b   De Freitas, Sara ^c   Arnab, Sylvester ^c  

^a ITD CNR ^*  (Spain)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c Institute for Clean Growth and Future Mobility   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Collaborative learning; Competition; Game based learning; Multi player games; Positive interdependence; Serious games

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; DYNAMICS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

COLLABORATIVE LEARNING; GAME-BASED LEARNING; MULTIPLAYER GAMES; POSITIVE INTERDEPENDENCE; SERIOUS GAMES;

EDUCATION COMPUTING;

EID: 84905739448     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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