Finding appropriate learning objects: An empirical evaluation

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3652 LNCS, Issue , 2005, Pages 323-335

  Najjar, Jehad ^a   Klerkx, Joris ^a   Vuorikari, Riina ^a   Duval, Erik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE; ITERATIVE METHODS; SEARCH ENGINES; USABILITY ENGINEERING; USER INTERFACES;

ARIADNE KNOWLEDGE POOL SYSTEM; LEARNING OBJECT REPOSITORIES (LOR); LEARNING OBJECTS; USABILITY PROBLEMS;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 33645959806     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11551362_29     Document Type: Conference Paper

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