WeSPOT: A personal and social approach to inquiry-based learning

Journal of Universal Computer Science

Volumn 19, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 2093-2111

  Mikroyannidis, Alexander ^a   Okada, Alexandra ^a   Scott, Peter ^a   Rusman, Ellen ^b   Specht, Marcus ^b   Stefanov, Krassen ^c   Boytchev, Pavel ^c   Protopsaltis, Aristidis ^d   Held, Paul ^d   Hetzner, Sonia ^d   Kikis Papadakis, Kathy ^e   Chaimala, Foteini ^e  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY OF THE NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^e INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cloud learning environment; Inquiry based learning; Personal learning environment; Scientific inquiry; Social learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890334702     PISSN: 0948695X     EISSN: 09486968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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