Situations, interaction, process and affordances: An ecological psychology perspective

Instructional Science

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 47-63

  Young, Michael F ^a   Depalma, Andrew ^a   Garrett, Steven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Affordances; Constructivism; Context; Ecological psychology; Intelligent tutoring systems; Situated cognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036112985     PISSN: 00204277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1013537432164     Document Type: Article

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