Developing long-term computing skills among low-achieving students via web-enabled problem-based learning and self-regulated learning

Innovations in Education and Teaching International

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 121-132

  Tsai, Chia Wen ^a   Lee, Tsang Hsiung ^b   Shen, Pei Di ^a  

^a MING CHUAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENGCHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

application software education; e learning; long term computing skills; web enabled PBL; web enabled SRL

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877876263     PISSN: 14703297     EISSN: 14703300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14703297.2012.760873     Document Type: Article

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