Don't do this - Pitfalls in using anti-patterns in teaching human-computer interaction principles

Computers and Education

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 979-1008

  Kotzé, Paula ^a   Renaud, Karen ^b   Biljon, Judy van ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AFRICA   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Human computer interface; Improving classroom teaching; Pedagogical issues; Teaching strategies

Indexed keywords

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; TEACHING;

IMPROVING CLASSROOM TEACHING; TEACHING STRATEGIES;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 38649088612     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2006.10.003     Document Type: Article

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