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Mobile Gaming Patterns and Their Impact on Learning Outcomes: A Literature Review

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21st Century Learning for 21st Century Skills (EC-TEL 2012)

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Mobile learning games have increasingly been topic of educational research with the intention to utilize their manifold and ubiquitous capabilities for learning and teaching. This paper presents a review of current research activities in the field. It particularly focuses is on the educational values serious mobile games provide. The study results substantiate their generally assumed motivational potential. Also, they indicate that mobile learning games may have the potential to bring about cognitive learning outcomes.

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    Birgit Schmitz & Roland Klemke

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    Birgit Schmitz, Roland Klemke & Marcus Specht

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  1. CASS School of Education and Communities, University of East London (UEL), Stratford Campus, Water Lane, E15 4LZ, London, UK

    Andrew Ravenscroft

  2. Knowledge Management Institute and Know-Center GmbH, Graz University of Technology (TUG), Inffeldgasse 21a,, 8010, Graz, Austria

    Stefanie Lindstaedt

  3. Departamento Ingenieria Telemática, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Avenida Universidad 30,, 28911, Leganés (Madrid), Spain

    Carlos Delgado Kloos

  4. Information and Communitations Technologies Department, Universitat Pompeu Fabra,, Roc Boronat 138, 08018, Barcelona, Spain

    Davinia Hernández-Leo

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Schmitz, B., Klemke, R., Specht, M. (2012). Mobile Gaming Patterns and Their Impact on Learning Outcomes: A Literature Review. In: Ravenscroft, A., Lindstaedt, S., Kloos, C.D., Hernández-Leo, D. (eds) 21st Century Learning for 21st Century Skills. EC-TEL 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7563. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33263-0_37

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