Wikis: What students do and do not do when writing collaboratively

Open Learning

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 25-35

  Meishar Tal, Hagit ^a   Gorsky, Paul ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

Collaborative learning; Collaborative writing; Wiki

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955477643     PISSN: 02680513     EISSN: 14699958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02680510903482074     Document Type: Article

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