Students' mental models of the Internet and their didactical exploitation in Informatics education

Education and Information Technologies

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 341-360

  Papastergiou, Marina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Computer networks; Conceptions; Informatics education; Internet; Mental models

Indexed keywords

EID: 24944482745     PISSN: 13602357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10639-005-3431-7     Document Type: Article

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