Learning by searching: A learning environment that provides searching and analysis facilities for supporting trend analysis activities

Educational Technology and Society

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 286-300

  Yin, Chengjiu ^a   Sung, Han Yu ^b   Hwang, Gwo Jen ^a,b   Hirokawa, Sachio ^a   Chu, Hui Chun ^c   Flanagan, Brendan ^a   Tabata, Yoshiyuki ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^c SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Data mining; Learning by searching; Research trend survey; Search engine; Web based learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884133274     PISSN: 11763647     EISSN: 14364522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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