Scaffolding of small groups' metacognitive activities with an avatar

International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 601-624

  Molenaar, Inge ^a   Chiu, Ming Ming ^b   Sleegers, Peter ^c   van Boxtel, Carla ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Elementary education; Embodied agents; Metacognition; Scaffolding

Indexed keywords

EID: 81455131489     PISSN: 15561607     EISSN: 15561615     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11412-011-9130-z     Document Type: Article

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