Externalizing mental models with mindtools

Understanding Models for Learning and Instruction

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 145-159

  Jonassen, David ^a   Cho, Young Hoan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive tools; Episodic knowledge; Knowledge representation; Mental models; Mindtools; Procedural knowledge; Structural knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889970634     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-76898-4_7     Document Type: Chapter

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