Learning by exploration: Thinking aloud while exploring an information system

Instructional Science

Volumn 27, Issue 3-4, 1999, Pages 269-284

  Van Oostendorp, Herre ^a   De Mul, Sjaak ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Display based problem solving; Exploratory learning; Think aloud method

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033464803     PISSN: 00204277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00897322     Document Type: Article

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