Self-organising navigational support in lifelong learning: How predecessors can lead the way

Computers and Education

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 781-793

  Janssen, José ^a   Tattersall, Colin ^a   Waterink, Wim ^a   van den Berg, Bert ^a   van Es, René ^a   Bolman, Catherine ^a   Koper, Rob ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY OF THE NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Distributed learning environments; Lifelong learning; Navigation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOCIAL SCIENCES COMPUTING;

DISTRIBUTED LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS; LIFELONG LEARNING; MODULARISATION; NAVIGATIONAL SUPPORT;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 34248647907     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2005.11.022     Document Type: Article

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