Teachers as simulation programmers: Minimalist learning and reuse

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 237-244

  Rosson, Mary Beth ^a   Seals, Cheryl D ^a  

^a State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Simulations; Teacher education; Visual programming

Indexed keywords

PUBLIC SCHOOLS; SIMULATIONS; TEACHER EDUCATION; VISUAL PROGRAMMING;

HUMAN ENGINEERING; SURVEYS; TEACHING;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 0035031064     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/365024.365109     Document Type: Conference Paper

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