Multimedia application with animated cartoons for teaching science in elementary education

Computers and Education

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 741-748

  Dalacosta, K ^a   Kamariotaki Paparrigopoulou, M ^b   Palyvos, J A ^a   Spyrellis, N ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Animated cartoons; Elementary education; Improving classroom teaching; Multimedia hypermedia systems

Indexed keywords

APPLICATIONS; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; SCHOOL BUILDINGS;

ANIMATED CARTOONS; ATHENS , GREECE; ELEMENTARY EDUCATION; ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS; IMPROVING CLASSROOM TEACHING; MULTIMEDIA APPLICATIONS; MULTIMEDIA/HYPERMEDIA SYSTEMS; RESEARCH RESULTS; TEACHING AND LEARNING;

TEACHING;

EID: 60749123590     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2008.11.018     Document Type: Article

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