Interactive technology for enhancing distributed learning: A study on Weblogs

People and Computers XXIII Celebrating People and Technology - Proceedings of HCI 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 309-312

  Holzinger, Andreas ^a   Kickmeier Rust, Michael D ^b   Ebner, Martin ^c  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Distributed learning; Learning performance; Massed learning; Web 2.0.; Weblogs

Indexed keywords

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

DISTRIBUTED LEARNING; LEARNING PERFORMANCE; MASSED LEARNING; WEB 2.0; WEBLOGS;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 84860461177     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.14236/ewic/hci2009.37     Document Type: Conference Paper

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