Distributed collaboration activities in a blended learning scenario and the effects on learning performance

Journal of Computer Assisted Learning

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 232-244

  Gerber, Marius ^a   Grund, S ^b   Grote, G ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Computer mediated communication; Cooperative collaborative learning; Evaluation methodologies; Teaching learning strategies

Indexed keywords

EID: 43349103099     PISSN: 02664909     EISSN: 13652729     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2729.2007.00256.x     Document Type: Article

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