Student centred teaching of accounting to engineering students: Comparing blended learning with traditional approaches

ASCILITE 2007 - The Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1-9

  Abraham, Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Accounting; Blended learning; Higher education; Pedagogy; Student centred learning

Indexed keywords

BLENDED APPROACH; BLENDED LEARNING; EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE; HIGHER EDUCATION; LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS; LEARNING TASKS; PEDAGOGY; STUDENT-CENTRED;

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; NUCLEAR FUEL ACCOUNTING;

STUDENTS;

EID: 68949168495     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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