Animating civic education: Developing a knowledge navigation system using blogging and topic map technology

Educational Technology and Society

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 79-92

  Huang, Tien Chi ^a   Chen, Chia Chen ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL TAICHUNG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b TUNGHAI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Blog; Civic education; Formal learning; Informal learning; Knowledge navigation; Topic maps

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873103658     PISSN: 11763647     EISSN: 14364522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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