Digital performance learning: Utilizing a course weblog for mediating communication

Educational Technology and Society

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 231-241

  Novakovich, Jeanette ^a   Long, Erin Cramer ^b  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Authentic task; Collaboration; Course blog; Web mediated writing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890093389     PISSN: 11763647     EISSN: 14364522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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