Using online homework to engage students in a geoscience course for general education

Journal of Geoscience Education

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 566-574

  Grove, Karen ^a  

^a SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Education computer assited; Education geoscience; Education Undergraduate; Marine Geology and Oceanography

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER; EDUCATION; LEARNING; OCEANOGRAPHY; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; SOFTWARE;

EID: 0036881017     PISSN: 10899995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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