Collaborating to learn, learning to collaborate: Finding the balance in a cross-disciplinary design course

ICLS 2006 - International Conference of the Learning Sciences, Proceedings

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 467-473

  Mercier, Emma ^a   Goldman, Shelley ^a   Booker, Angela ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION RESEARCH; CROSS-DISCIPLINARY; DESIGN COURSE; FOUR DIMENSIONS; PROBLEM SPACE; PROJECT QUALITY; STUDENT LEARNING;

RESEARCH; STUDENTS;

CURRICULA;

EID: 84861024602     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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