Designing courseware on algorithms for active learning with virtual board games

SIGCSE Bulletin (Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education)

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 135-138

  Faltin, Nils ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Active learning; Algorithm animation; Courseware design

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; DESIGN; E-LEARNING;

ACTIVE LEARNING; ALGORITHM ANIMATION; BOARD GAMES; COURSEWARE; COURSEWARE DESIGN; GAME PROTOTYPES; INTERACTIVE EXERCISE; NEW FORMS;

LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 3943064320     PISSN: 00978418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/384267.305894     Document Type: Article

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