The nature of students' sociocognitive activity in handling and processing multimedia-based science material in a small group learning task

Instructional Science

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 481-515

  Kumpulainen, Kristiina ^a   Salovaara, Hanna ^a   Mutanen, Mika ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Collaborative learning; Instructional design for educational technology; Multimedia based learning; Social and cognitive processes in learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035597221     PISSN: 00204277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1012272119868     Document Type: Article

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