Investigating the Effectiveness of an Educational Card Game for Learning How Human Immunology Is Regulated

This study is being conducted in an attempt to investigate the effectiveness of an educational card game we developed for learning about human immunology. The obtained results indicate that students did learn from the educational card game and generally had positive perceptions of the game-based instruction and its learning efficiency.

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