As the Case May Be: The Potential of Electronic Cases for Interdisciplinary Communication Instruction

IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 313-319

  Fisher, David ^a   Bowers, Tom ^a   Ellertson, Anthony ^a   Brumm, Thomas J ^b   Mickelson, Steven K ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Iowa State University of Science and Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Case studies; Database; Electronic cases; Entrepreneur; Instructional design; Interactivity; Interdisciplinary pedagogy; Knowledge construction; Multimedia; MyCase; Omega; Repurposing; School to workplace transitions; Situated learning; Technical writer

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; DATA ACQUISITION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DISTANCE EDUCATION; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; TECHNICAL WRITING; WORLD WIDE WEB;

ELECTRONIC CASES; INTERACTIVITY; INTERDISCIPLINARY PEDAGOGY; OMEGA; REAL WORLD PROBLEMS; SCHOOL-TO-WORKPLACE TRANSITIONS; SITUATED LEARNING; TECHNICAL WRITERS;

EDUCATION;

EID: 0347946921     PISSN: 03611434     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPC.2003.819637     Document Type: Review

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