Differential benefits of situated instructional prompts

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 818-828

  Horz, Holger ^a   Winter, Claudia ^b   Fries, Stefan ^c  

^a Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cognitive load; Instructional support; Prompting; Situated learning; Tool use

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE LOAD; INSTRUCTIONAL SUPPORT; PROMPTING; SITUATED LEARNING; TOOL USE;

GLOSSARIES;

EDUCATION;

EID: 67349100199     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2008.07.001     Document Type: Article

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