Effects of face-to-face versus chat communication on performance in a collaborative inquiry modeling task

Computers and Education

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 379-387

  Sins, Patrick H M ^a   Savelsbergh, Elwin R ^b   Van Joolingen, Wouter R ^c   Van Hout Wolters, Bernadette H A M ^d  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Computer mediated communication; Cooperative collaborative learning; Interactive learning environments; Secondary education; Simulations

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION; COOPERATIVE/COLLABORATIVE LEARNING; INTERACTIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT; SECONDARY EDUCATION; SIMULATIONS;

COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; EDUCATION COMPUTING; LEARNING SYSTEMS; TEACHING;

STUDENTS;

EID: 78149466994     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2010.08.022     Document Type: Article

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