Are contextual and designed student-student interaction treatments equally effective in distance education?

Distance Education

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 311-329

  Borokhovski, Eugene ^a   Tamim, Rana ^b   Bernard, Robert M ^a   Abrami, Philip C ^a   Sokolovskaya, Anna ^c  

^a Systematic Reviews Project Manager Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance   (Canada)

^b ZAYED UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^c Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

designed and contextual collaborative interaction treatments; distance education; meta analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869432051     PISSN: 01587919     EISSN: 14750198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01587919.2012.723162     Document Type: Review

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