Learning in lectures: Do ‘interactive windows’ help?

Active Learning in Higher Education

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 17-31

  Huxham, Mark ^a  

^a EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

buzz groups; evaluation; interaction; lectures; recall

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904279033     PISSN: 14697874     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1469787405049943     Document Type: Article

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