Supporting learning using external representations

Computers and Education

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1599-1608

  Ertl, Bernhard ^a   Kopp, Birgitta ^b   Mandl, Heinz ^b  

^a BUNDESWEHR UNIVERSITY MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computer mediated communication; Cooperative collaborative learning; Distance education and telelearning; Distributed learning environments; Human computer interface

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE LEARNING; COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION; COOPERATIVE/COLLABORATIVE LEARNING; DISTANCE EDUCATION AND TELELEARNING; DISTRIBUTED LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; EXTERNAL REPRESENTATIONS; GRAPHICAL ELEMENTS; HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERFACE; UNIVERSITY STUDENTS;

EID: 49449109004     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2008.03.001     Document Type: Article

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