'Hole-in-the-wall' computer kiosks foster mathematics achievement - A comparative study

Educational Technology and Society

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 170-179

  Inamdar, Parimala ^a   Kulkarni, Arun ^b  

^a NIIT Institute of Information Technology (TNI)   (India)

^b Center of Quantitative Research   (India)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Hole in the wall; Learning; Mathematics; Technology

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250871175     PISSN: 11763647     EISSN: 14364522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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