Exploring the relationships between Web usability and students' perceived learning in Web-based multimedia (WBMM) tutorials

Computers and Education

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 386-409

  Mackey, Thomas P ^a   Ho, Jinwon ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b State University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

Human computer interaction; Improving classroom teaching; Media in education; Multimedia hypermedia systems; Pedagogical issues; Teaching learning strategies

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; STUDENTS; TEACHING; WEB SERVICES;

CLASSROOM INSTRUCTION; IMPROVING CLASSROOM TEACHING; LEARNING STRATEGIES; PEDAGOGICAL ISSUES; WEB DESIGN;

E-LEARNING;

EID: 35148857309     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2006.08.006     Document Type: Article

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