Designing authentic activities in web-based courses

Journal of Computing in Higher Education

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 3-29

  Herrington, Jan ^a   Reeves, Thomas C ^b   Oliver, Ron ^a   Woo, Younghee ^b  

^a EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

authentic activities; characteristics of authentic activities; online courses; Web based learning environments

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873941002     PISSN: 10421726     EISSN: 18671233     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02960280     Document Type: Article

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