Thinking style, browsing primes and hypermedia navigation

Computers and Education

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 916-941

  Fiorina, Lorenzo ^a   Antonietti, Alessandro ^a   Colombo, Barbara ^a   Bartolomeo, Annella ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Gender studies; Multimedia hypermedia studies; Navigation; Post secondary education; Teaching learning strategies

Indexed keywords

LEARNING SYSTEMS; LINEAR SYSTEMS; TEACHING; WEB BROWSERS; WEBSITES;

GENDER STUDIES; HYPERMEDIA NAVIGATION; LEARNING STRATEGIES; POST SECONDARY EDUCATION;

HYPERMEDIA SYSTEMS;

EID: 34248649335     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2005.12.005     Document Type: Article

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