A study of the acceptability of a Web 2.0 application by higher-education students undertaking collaborative laboratory activities

Proceedings of the 2nd International Conferences on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions, ACHI 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 117-125

  El Helou, Sandy ^a   Salzmann, Christophe ^a   Gillet, Denis ^a   Yu, Chiu Man ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

CLASS GROUPS; COLLABORATIVE APPLICATIONS; FORMAL LEARNING; GROUP LEARNING; HIGHER EDUCATIONS; LABORATORY COURSE; QUANTITATIVE METHODS; WEB 2.0; WEB 2.0 APPLICATIONS;

TEACHING;

EID: 63749108337     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ACHI.2009.52     Document Type: Conference Paper

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