Constructivist learning (environments) and how to avoid another tower of Babel: Reply to Renkl

Instructional Science

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 499-502

  Gijbels, David ^a   Loyens, Sofie M M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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EID: 71449123397     PISSN: 00204277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11251-009-9100-2     Document Type: Article

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