What Have Games Got to Do with Me?

Is the proliferation of work-based games just a distraction, or can they actually help us to acquire work-specific knowledge? This Opinion explains why we can see the benefits of such games, despite initial skepticism. Players learn from listening to and observing others, and some people even enjoy...

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Autores principales: McCutcheon, Valerie, Bray, George
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
Materias:
Opinion
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7660370/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33205079
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.patter.2020.100002
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