Collaborative Learning in a Wiki Environment: Experiences from a software engineering course

New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 187-209

  Minocha, Shailey ^a   Thomas, Peter G ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

GROUP COLLABORATION; INFORMATION SHARING; SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS FOR BUSINESS SYSTEMS; WIKI;

E-LEARNING;

EID: 36949008780     PISSN: 13614568     EISSN: 17407842     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13614560701712667     Document Type: Article

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