Why advice on task selection may hamper learning in on-demand education

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 145-154

  Taminiau, Elisabeth M C ^a   Kester, Liesbeth ^a   Corbalan, Gemma ^b   Alessi, Stephen M ^c   Moxnes, Erling ^d   Gijselaers, Wim H ^e   Kirschner, Paul A ^a   Van Merriënboer, Jeroen J G ^f  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY OF THE NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

^b Netherlands Institute for Curriculum Development   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^e MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^f MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Advice; On demand education; Task selection

Indexed keywords

ADVICE; DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE; DOMAIN SPECIFIC; INDIVIDUAL LEARNING; LEARNING TASKS; LEARNING TRAJECTORIES; ON-DEMAND EDUCATION; SYSTEM DYNAMICS; TASK SELECTION;

EDUCATION;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84868207904     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2012.07.028     Document Type: Article

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