this paper aims to examine the fun concept and age differences in attitudes toward workplace fun. the authors review the literature on workplace fun and generational theory. the fun in workplace was measured with karl et al.’s (2005) and generational cohort was measured by the respondents’ birth year using a sample of 296 workers at a industrial company in south west of tehran. according to res...

Research on Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) use in schools is increasingly finding that the impact on learning outcomes is not directly causal but depends on how the technologies are used within learning environments. This paper presents one key dimension, the ‘Learning Environment Attributes’ dimension, of a complete literature-based framework — the ‘New ICT Supporting School...

Inspired by research by Carrie Heeter et al. and the MIT Games-to-Teach project we set up a small scale empirical study on two educational games on Art aimed at primary school children. We found that both boys and girls liked to play these games; that one game scored better on our ‘fun-index’ and that girls had less mouse skills and lacked certain game skills. This did not, however, affect thei...