The effects of process and content facilitation restrictiveness on GSS-mediated collaborative learning

Group Decision and Negotiation

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 345-361

  Khalifa, Mohamed ^a   Davison, Robert ^a   Kwok, Ron Chi Wai ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaborative learning; Concept mapping; Group Support Systems; Process restrictiveness

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141680443     PISSN: 09262644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020449317854     Document Type: Article

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