Do students need teacher's initiation in online collaborative learning?

Computers and Education

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1137-1144

  Tsai, Chia Wen ^a  

^a MING CHUAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cooperative collaborative learning; Distance education and telelearning; Learning communities; Pedagogical issues; Teaching learning strategies

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE/COLLABORATIVE LEARNING; DISTANCE EDUCATION AND TELE-LEARNING; LEARNING COMMUNITY; PEDAGOGICAL ISSUES; TEACHING/LEARNING STRATEGY;

DISTANCE EDUCATION; INTEROPERABILITY; STUDENTS;

TEACHING;

EID: 77249108771     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2009.10.021     Document Type: Article

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