Melding the power of serious games and embedded assessment to monitor and foster learning: Flow and grow

Serious Games: Mechanisms and Effects

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 295-321

  Shute, Valerie J ^a   Ventura, Matthew ^b   Bauer, Malcolm ^b   Zapata Rivera, Diego ^b  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE   (United States)

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EID: 84909263860     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203891650     Document Type: Chapter

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