Psychological safety and social support in groupware adoption: A multi-level assessment in education

Computers and Education

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 757-775

  Schepers, Jeroen ^a   de Jong, Ad ^a   Wetzels, Martin ^b   de Ruyter, Ko ^b  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Computer mediated communication; Cooperative collaborative learning; Interactive learning environments; Multimedia hypermedia systems

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; HYPERMEDIA SYSTEMS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PSYCHOLOGY COMPUTING;

COLLABORATIVE LEARNING; COMPUTER MEDIATED COMMUNICATION; INTERACTIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS; PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY;

GROUPWARE;

EID: 43849102828     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2007.08.001     Document Type: Article

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