Playing games during a lecture hour: experience with an online blood grouping game.

theory lectures are boring and sleep inducing for students, and it is difficult to get their full attention during 1 h of lecture ([7][1]). The ability of students to concentrate diminishes 20–25 min after the start of the lecture ([5][2]). There is also a lack of active participation of students

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