Towards a personalized task selection model with shared instructional control

Instructional Science

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 399-422

  Corbalan, Gemma ^a   Kester, Liesbeth ^a   Van Merriënboer, Jeroen J G ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY OF THE NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cognitive load; Complex learning; Dynamic task selection; Electronic learning environment; Learner control; Personalized instruction

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746118331     PISSN: 00204277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11251-005-5774-2     Document Type: Article

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