The role of simulations and real-time applications in collaborative learning

Collaborative Learning: Methodology, Types of Interactions and Techniques

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 225-255

  Limniou, Maria ^a   Papadopoulos, Nikos ^b   Kozaris, Ioannis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

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