Still in Another Castle: Asking New Questions about Games, Teaching and Learning

Research on digital game-based learning has mainly been concerned with exploring questions related to a core set of assumptions: that games, in a general sense, are effective learning tools by virtue of being motivating, engaging, adaptive and allowing for consequence-free failure and playful learni...

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Published in:Gamevironments
Subtitles:"Special Issue 'Revisiting Teaching and Games. Mapping out Ecosystems of Learning', edited by Björn Berg Marklund, Jordan Loewen-Colón and Maria Saridaki"
Main Author: Staaby, Tobias (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 2021
In: Gamevironments
Year: 2021, Volume: 15, Pages: 102-129
Further subjects:B Video Games
B Gamevironments
B Situated Learning
B Digital Game-Based Pedagogy
B Digital Games-Based Learning
B Digital Games
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