Not everybody needs help to seek help: Surprising effects of metacognitive instructions to foster help-seeking in an online-learning environment

Computers and Education

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1020-1028

  Stahl, Elmar ^a   Bromme, Rainer ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Interactive learning environments; Media in education; Pedagogical issues; Post secondary education; Teaching learning strategies

Indexed keywords

INTERACTIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS; MEDIA IN EDUCATION; PEDAGOGICAL ISSUES; POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION; TEACHING/LEARNING STRATEGIES;

STUDENTS;

EID: 69949095149     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2008.10.004     Document Type: Article

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