Affordances of a scaffolded-social learning network

On the Horizon

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 33-42

  Zywica, Jolene ^a   Richards, Kimberly A ^b   Gomez, Kim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Learning; Learning methods; Multimedia; Networking; Worldwide web

Indexed keywords

EID: 79551668521     PISSN: 10748121     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/10748121111107690     Document Type: Article

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