Characteristics of multimedia textbooks that affect post-test scores

Journal of Computer Assisted Learning

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 528-537

  Mikk, J ^a   Luik, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Empirical; Interface, Multimedia; Readability, Secondary; Software evaluation; Summative

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842534143     PISSN: 02664909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.0266-4909.2003.00055.x     Document Type: Article

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