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Playing to Learn: Are you Serious? A Theoretical Discussion of the Relationship Between (Video) Games and Learning Vincent Berry - 2011

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Author(s) : Vincent Berry
Editor : Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology / La revue canadienne de l?apprentissage et de la technologie, Vol 37, No 2 (2011)
Date : 2011
Lang : Lang


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Abstract

 

This article offers a theoretical discussion of the relationship between video games and education. Based on both a literature review of this field and a study of players of Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games, this article presents the difficulties in the field of education of thinking of games as a space of learning and proposes various theoretical elements to address this issue.

 

References (1):

 

Michaud, L., & Alvarez, J. (2008). Serious games : Advergaming, edugaming, training. Paris: IDATE. 



Keywords : Games, Education, Online games, Video games