Interactive lectures: Effective teaching and learning in lectures using wireless networks

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 2524-2537

  Wessels, Anja ^a   Fries, Stefan ^a   Horz, Holger ^b   Scheele, Nicolai ^a   Effelsberg, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

Blended learning; Interactivity; Lecture; Ubiquitous computing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MOBILE COMPUTING; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

BLENDED LEARNING; INTERACTIVITY; LECTURES; MOBILE COMPUTERS;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 33947611358     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2006.05.001     Document Type: Article

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