An experience of teaching for learning by observation: Remote-controlled experiments on electrical circuits

Computers and Education

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 702-717

  Kong, Siu Cheung ^a   Yeung, Yau Yuen ^a   Wu, Xian Qiu ^b  

^a THE EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Applications in subject areas; Elementary education; Improving classroom teaching; Pedagogical issues; Teaching learning strategies

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTS; MACHINE DESIGN; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; REMOTE CONTROL; SCHOOL BUILDINGS; STUDENTS;

APPLICATIONS IN SUBJECT AREAS; ELEMENTARY EDUCATION; IMPROVING CLASSROOM TEACHING; PEDAGOGICAL ISSUES; TEACHING/LEARNING STRATEGIES;

TEACHING;

EID: 59049094664     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2008.11.011     Document Type: Article

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