Constructivism: Teaching for understanding of the Internet

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 112-117

  Scott Brandt, D ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; TEACHING; WIDE AREA NETWORKS;

INTERNET; WORLD WIDE WEB (WWW);

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION;

EID: 0031257136     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/262793.262814     Document Type: Article

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