Visualisation and gamification of e-Learning and programming education

Electronic Journal of e-Learning

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 441-454

  Olsson, Marie ^a   Mozelius, Peter ^a   Collin, Jonas ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

E learning; Gamification; Programming education; Virtual learning environments; Visualisation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84957593353     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14794403     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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