Empowering personalized learning with an interactive e-book learning system for elementary school students

Educational Technology Research and Development

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 703-722

  Huang, Yueh Min ^a,b   Liang, Tsung Ho ^a   Su, Yen Ning ^a   Chen, Nian Shing ^c  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHIA NAN UNIVERSITY OF PHARMACY AND SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

E book learning system; Elementary school; Functionality; Personalized learning; Usability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865580402     PISSN: 10421629     EISSN: 15566501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11423-012-9237-6     Document Type: Article

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