Supporting collaborative inquiry during a biology field trip with mobile peer-to-peer tools for learning: A case study with K-12 learners

Interactive Learning Environments

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 103-117

  Laru, Jari ^a   Järvelä, Sanna ^a   Clariana, Roy B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

argumentation; collaborative learning; inquiry learning; mobile learning; scaffolding

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859481737     PISSN: 10494820     EISSN: 17445191     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10494821003771350     Document Type: Article

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