Providing students hints and detecting mistakes made by students in a virtual experiment environment

IEEE Transactions on Education

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 61-68

  Heh, Jia Sheng ^a   Chang, Jyh Cheng ^a   Li, Shao Chun ^b   Chang, Maiga ^c  

^a CHUNG YUAN CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b MINGDAO UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c ATHABASCA UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Learning control systems; Learning diagnosis; Petri nets; Student experiments

Indexed keywords

FLOWCHARTING; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PETRI NETS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

BLOCK DIAGRAMS; VIRTUAL EXPERIMENT ENVIRONMENT;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 40649127269     PISSN: 00189359     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TE.2007.901977     Document Type: Article

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