Fostering collaborative learning and mass-customization of education in a graduate engineering design course

International Journal of Engineering Education

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 729-744

  Rippel, Markus ^a   Dirk Schaefer, ^a   Farrokh Mistree, ^a   Panchal, Jitesh H ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Washington State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Collective learning; Educational mass customization; Engineering design; Mass collaboration; Question for the semester; Social networking

Indexed keywords

EID: 69949124835     PISSN: 0949149X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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