Teaching in higher education through the use of variation: Examples from distillation, physics and process dynamics

European Journal of Engineering Education

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 369-381

  Fraser, Duncan ^a   Linder, Cedric ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Laplace transforms; Reflective learning; Student learning; Variation learning theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 75249097337     PISSN: 03043797     EISSN: 14695898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03043790902989507     Document Type: Article

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