CD-ROM talking books: What do they promise?

Education and Information Technologies

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 121-130

  DeJean, Jillian ^a   Miller, Larry ^a   Olson, Jon ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Case study; Interaction; Multimedia; Primary classrooms; Reading

Indexed keywords

EID: 53149113196     PISSN: 13602357     EISSN: 15737608     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1018696726539     Document Type: Review

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