The development of evaluation indicators for LEGO multimedia instructional material

WSEAS Transactions on Computers

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1782-1791

  Liu, Eric Zhi Feng ^a   Cheng, Shan Shan ^a,b   Lin, Chun Hung ^a   Chang, Yu Fang ^a   Chen, Wen Ting ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b MINGHSIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Evaluation indicator; LEGO; MINDSTORMS NXT; Multimedia instructional material; Robot

Indexed keywords

ROBOTICS; ROBOTS;

EVALUATION INDICATOR; LEGO; MINDSTORMS NXT; MULTIMEDIA INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIAL; ROBOT;

MATERIALS;

EID: 59249086068     PISSN: 11092750     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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