Making sense of epistemic categories. Analysing students' use of categories of progressive inquiry in computer mediated collaborative activities: Original article

Journal of Computer Assisted Learning

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 425-439

  Arnseth, H C ^a   Saljo R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Discussion and inquiry software; Epistemic categories; Interaction analysis; Progressive inquiry; Socio cultural theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548425220     PISSN: 02664909     EISSN: 13652729     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2729.2007.00225.x     Document Type: Article

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