Learning to be creative. The effects of observational learning on students' design products and processes

Learning and Instruction

Volumn 28, Issue , 2013, Pages 35-47

  Groenendijk, Talita ^a   Janssen, Tanja ^a   Rijlaarsdam, Gert ^a   Van den Bergh, Huub ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Art and design education; Cognitive modeling; Creative process; Creativity; Observational learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879595409     PISSN: 09594752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2013.05.001     Document Type: Article

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