Learning with serious games: Is fun playing the game a predictor of learning success?

British Journal of Educational Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 151-163

  Iten, Nina ^a   Petko, Dominik ^b  

^a Schwyz University of Teacher Education   (Switzerland)

^b Department of the Institute for Media and Schools ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; MOTIVATION; TEACHING;

EMPIRICAL STUDIES; EXPLICIT LEARNING; LEARNING GAME; LEARNING MOTIVATION; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSIONS; PRIMARY SCHOOLS; SERIOUS GAMES; SUBJECT MATTERS;

EDUCATION COMPUTING;

EID: 84954185632     PISSN: 00071013     EISSN: 14678535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/bjet.12226     Document Type: Article

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