Supporting "learning by design" activities using group blogs

Educational Technology and Society

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 199-212

  Fessakis, Georgios ^a   Tatsis, Konstantinos ^a   Dimitracopoulou, Angelique ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

Author keywords

Blogs; E learning; Higher education; Interaction analysis; Learning by design

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955359016     PISSN: 11763647     EISSN: 14364522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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