Experiences using a collaborative electronic textbook: Bringing the "guide on the side" home with you

Proceedings of the Thirty-Seventh SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 339-343

  McFall, Ryan ^a   Dershem, Herbert ^a   Davis, Darcy ^b  

^a HOPE COLLEGE   (United States)

^b YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Active reading; Electronic textbooks

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE READING; ELECTRONIC TEXTBOOKS;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

TEXTBOOKS;

EID: 37849040829     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1121341.1121448     Document Type: Conference Paper

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