Prompting students' context-generating cognitive activity in ill-structured domains: Does the prompting mode affect learning?

Educational Technology Research and Development

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 193-210

  Papadopoulos, Pantelis M ^a   Demetriadis, Stavros N ^a   Stamelos, Ioannis G ^a   Tsoukalas, Ioannis A ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Case based learning; Learning in context; Learning in ill structured domains; Question prompts; Technology enhanced learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349164028     PISSN: 10421629     EISSN: 15566501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11423-008-9105-6     Document Type: Article

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