Using virtual microscopy to scaffold learning of pathology: A naturalistic experiment on the role of visual and conceptual cues

Instructional Science

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 799-811

  Nivala, Markus ^a   Säljö, Roger ^b   Rystedt, Hans ^b   Kronqvist, Pauliina ^a   Lehtinen, Erno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Conceptual cueing; Learning technology; Medical education; Virtual microscopy; Visual cueing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865598391     PISSN: 00204277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11251-012-9215-8     Document Type: Article

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