Student task modeling in design and evaluation of open problem-solving environments

Education and Information Technologies

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 17-40

  Tselios, Nikolaos K ^a   Avouris, Nikolaos M ^a   Kordaki, Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Open problem solving educational environments; Student task model; Task analysis; Usability evaluation; User interface design

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012665892     PISSN: 13602357     EISSN: 15737608     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1015306507126     Document Type: Review

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