Effects of an online problem based learning course on content knowledge acquisition and critical thinking skills

Computers and Education

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 132-141

  Şendaǧ, Serkan ^a   Ferhan Odabasi H ^a  

^a ANADOLU UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Distributed learning environments; Teaching learning strategies

Indexed keywords

CONTROL GROUPS; CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS; DATA COLLECTION TOOLS; DISTRIBUTED LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS; MULTIPLE CHOICES; ON-LINE PROBLEMS; ONLINE LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS; PRIMARY SCHOOLS; TEACHING/LEARNING STRATEGIES; UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS; UNIVERSITY EDUCATIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CURRICULA; INTERNET; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; STUDENTS; TEACHING;

KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION;

EID: 64449087500     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2009.01.008     Document Type: Article

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