Virtual environments in biology teaching

Journal of Biological Education

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 176-181

  Mikropoulos, Tassos A ^a   Katsikis, Apostolos ^a   Nikolou, Eugenia ^a   Tsakalis, Panayiotis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Educational virtual environments; Photosynthesis; Plant cell

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042287655     PISSN: 00219266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00219266.2003.9655879     Document Type: Article

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