Serious games as a malleable learning medium: The effects of narrative, gameplay, and making on students’ performance and attitudes

British Journal of Educational Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 842-859

  Garneli, Varvara ^a   Giannakos, Michail ^b   Chorianopoulos, Konstantinos ^a,c  

^a IONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^c HELLENIC OPEN UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; STUDENTS;

ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE; COMPUTER-BASED SYSTEM; CONTROL GROUPS; FIELD STUDIES; FOUR-GROUP; LEARNING PERFORMANCE; MIDDLE SCHOOL; SERIOUS GAMES;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 84964596225     PISSN: 00071013     EISSN: 14678535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/bjet.12455     Document Type: Article

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