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A Brief Review of Digital Games and Learning

Year: 2007

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: Digital games have caught the attention of scholars across a variety of disciplines. Today, scholars from fields as diverse as media design, literature, computer science, education, and theatre studies have together contributed to the understanding of this emergent medium and its phenomenon as a learning tool The unsatisfying experience of directly adopting game formats into educational contexts has motivated researchers to study successful (commercial) digital games, in particular to examine the play activities of digital games and the principles underlying the design of digital games in order to develop concepts and strategies for rich virtual learning contexts. In this review, provided is a brief account of academic arguments regarding digital games and learning.

Source: IEEE International Conference on Digital Game and Intelligent Toy Enhanced Learning (DIGITEL)

DOI: 10.1109/digitel.2007.3

Author: Hui-Chun Hsiao

Institution: Pennsylvania State University

Language: English

Topic: Educational Games and Gamification

Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2096530684

FWCI: 7.719

Cites: 36

Cited by: 77

Related to: 10