Developing a highly interactive ebook for CS instruction

SIGCSE 2013 - Proceedings of the 44th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 135-140

  Fenwick, James B ^a   Kurtz, Barry L ^a   Meznar, Philip ^a   Phillips, Reed ^a   Weidner, Alex ^a  

^a APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Active learning; Authoring tools; EBook

Indexed keywords

E-LEARNING; ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING; PROLOG (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); TEACHING;

ACTIVE LEARNING; AUTHORING TOOL; AUTOMATED GRADING SYSTEMS; COURSE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; EBOOK; ELECTRONIC BOOKS; PROLOG PROGRAMMING; SCIENCE INSTRUCTIONS; STUDENT LEARNING;

GRADING;

EID: 84876210226     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2445196.2445241     Document Type: Conference Paper

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