The impact of a forfeit-or-prize gamified teaching on e-learners’ learning performance

Computers and Education

Volumn 126, Issue , 2018, Pages 143-152

  Ge, Zi Gang ^a,b  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^b Research Center of China's Ministry of Education for Development Strategies of High level Specialized Universities   (China)

Author keywords

E learning; Game based learning; Learning anxiety; Learning motivation; Reward strategy

Indexed keywords

E-LEARNING; MOTIVATION; SURVEYS;

E-LEARNERS; GAME-BASED LEARNING; KNOWLEDGE RETENTION; LEARNING ANXIETY; LEARNING MOTIVATION; LEARNING PERFORMANCE; REWARD STRATEGY; TEACHING PROCESS;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 85049639952     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2018.07.009     Document Type: Article

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