Creating interactive web-based environments to scaffold creative reasoning and meaningful learning: From physics to products

Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 49-57

  Jou, Min ^a   Chuang, Chien Pen ^a   Wu, Yu Shiang ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

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