Expectations and reality: Evaluating patterns of learning behaviour using audit trails

Computers and Education

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 840-855

  Kennedy, Gregor E ^a   Judd, Terry S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Evaluation methodology; Evaluation of CAL systems; Interactive learning environments; Multimedia hypermedia systems

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYPERMEDIA SYSTEMS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; STUDENTS; USER INTERFACES;

EVALUATION METHODOLOGY; INTERACTIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS; LEARNING PROCESSES;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 34248679028     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2005.11.023     Document Type: Article

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