The Great War and the Use of Video Games as Historical and Educational Resources: A Conversation

Stefan Aguirre Quiroga; Iro Filippaki

doi:10.14198/raei.2018.31.13

Authors

Stefan Aguirre Quiroga
Iro Filippaki Johns Hopkins University, United Kingdom

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14198/raei.2018.31.13

Keywords:

Great War, Video games, Historical and educational resources

Abstract

Iro Filippaki and Stefan Aguirre Quiroga exchange their views on the potentiality of video games as historical and educational resources in the study of the First World War.

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