A Web-based educational environment for teaching the computer cache memory

IEEE Transactions on Education

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 147-156

  Grigoriadou, Maria ^a   Kanidis, Evangelos ^a   Gogoulou, Agoritsa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cache memory; Conceptual change; Educational activities; Educational material; Simulation program

Indexed keywords

BUFFER STORAGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; STUDENTS; WEBSITES;

CONCEPTUAL CHANGE; EDUACTIONAL ACTIVITIES; EDUCATIONAL MATERIAL; LEARNING PROCESS; WEB-BASED CACHE MEMORY SIMULATION PROGRAM; WEB-BASED EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT;

TEACHING;

EID: 33144478255     PISSN: 00189359     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TE.2005.863431     Document Type: Article

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