Learning in a sheltered Internet environment: The use of WebQuests

Learning and Instruction

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 423-432

  Segers, Eliane ^a   Verhoeven, Ludo ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Google search; Information Communication Technologies; Internet; Learning environment; WebQuest; Writing

Indexed keywords

EID: 67449087421     PISSN: 09594752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2009.02.017     Document Type: Article

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