What Should Be the Role of Computer Games in Education?

Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 20-26

  Mayer, Richard E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

computer games; educational games; games for learning; video games

Indexed keywords

EID: 85039975359     PISSN: 23727322     EISSN: 23727330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2372732215621311     Document Type: Article

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