Learning about evaluation and assessment: Teacher's use of folksonomies and ontologies in an online narrative environment

Journal of Computer Assisted Learning

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 399-410

  Petrucco, Corrado ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Folksonomies; Ontologies; Professional practices; Teachers

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052777507     PISSN: 02664909     EISSN: 13652729     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2729.2011.00408.x     Document Type: Article

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