Using context to promote learning from information-seeking tasks

Journal of the American Society for Information Science

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 519-526

  Oliver, Ron ^a   Oliver, Helen ^a  

^a EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC INFORMATION SOURCES; INFORMATION SEEKING TASKS;

EDUCATION; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 0031169135     PISSN: 00028231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4571(199706)48:6<519::aid-asi5>3.0.co;2-x     Document Type: Article

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