College students' experience of online argumentation: Conceptions, approaches and the conditions of using question prompts

Internet and Higher Education

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 38-47

  Tsai, Pei Shan ^a   Tsai, Chin Chung ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Approaches to learning; Conceptions of learning; Online argumentation; Phenomenographic method

Indexed keywords

APPROACHES TO LEARNING; COGNITIVE TOOL; COLLEGE STUDENTS; CONCEPTIONS OF LEARNING; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; ONLINE ARGUMENTATION; PHENOMENOGRAPHIC METHOD; SURFACE APPROACH;

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; INTERNET;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84869865252     PISSN: 10967516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.iheduc.2012.10.001     Document Type: Article

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