Use of constructivism and collaborative teaching in an ILP processors course

IEEE Transactions on Education

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 101-111

  Moreno, Lorenzo ^a   González, Carina ^a   Castilla, Iván ^a   González, Evelio J ^a   Sigut, José ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Collaborative work; Computer architecture; Educational technology; Instruction level parallelism (ILP); Simulation software

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEEDBACK; GROUPWARE; STUDENTS; TEACHING;

COLLABORATIVE WORK; EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY; INSTRUCTION LEVEL PARALLELISM; SIMULATION SOFTWARE;

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION;

EID: 34249089189     PISSN: 00189359     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TE.2006.886461     Document Type: Article

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