Beyond strict illiteracy: Abstracted learning among low-literate users

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Medhi, Indrani ^a   Raghu Menon, S ^a   Cutrell, Edward ^a   Toyama, Kentaro ^b  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Abstraction; Cognitive skill; Instructional video; Low literate; Transfer learning

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTION; COGNITIVE SKILL; INSTRUCTIONAL VIDEOS; LOW-LITERATE; TRANSFER LEARNING;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

ABSTRACTING;

EID: 84867481076     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2369220.2369241     Document Type: Conference Paper

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