An enhanced genetic approach to composing cooperative learning groups for multiple grouping criteria

Educational Technology and Society

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 148-167

  Hwang, Gwo Jen ^a   Yin, Peng Yeng ^b   Hwang, Chi Wei ^b   Tsai, Chin Chung ^c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF TAINAN   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHI NAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cooperative learning; Genetic algorithm; Meta heuristic algorithm; Web based learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 54149109925     PISSN: 11763647     EISSN: 14364522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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