Productive failure in CSCL groups

International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 21-46

  Kapur, Manu ^a   Kinzer, Charles K ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Ill structured problem solving; Problem solving failure; Synchronous collaboration; Well structured problem solving

Indexed keywords

EID: 58149343302     PISSN: 15561607     EISSN: 15561615     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11412-008-9059-z     Document Type: Article

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