An integrated lecture, virtual instrumentation lab approach to teaching UV-Vis spectroscopy

Education and Information Technologies

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 229-244

  Limniou, Maria ^a   Papadopoulos, Nikos ^b   Roberts, David ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computer assisted instruction; Instrumentation; Simulation; Teaching learning aids; Virtual experiments

Indexed keywords

EID: 35348935550     PISSN: 13602357     EISSN: 15737608     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10639-007-9040-x     Document Type: Article

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