The silent participant in small group collaborative learning contexts

Active Learning in Higher Education

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 201-216

  Remedios, Louisa ^a   Clarke, David ^b   Hawthorne, Lesleyanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Cross cultural learning; Problem based learning; Silent students

Indexed keywords

EID: 54149100522     PISSN: 14697874     EISSN: 17412625     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1469787408095846     Document Type: Article

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