Teaching ICT to teacher candidates using PBL: A qualitative and quantitative evaluation

Educational Technology and Society

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 96-106

  Gülseçen, Sevinç ^a   Kubat, Arif ^b  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b INONU UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cognitive Tools; Improving Clasroom Teaching; Information and Communication Technology; Problem Based Learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646589003     PISSN: 11763647     EISSN: 14364522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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