Smart technology for self-organizing processes

Smart Learning Environments

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Scardamalia, Marlene ^a   Bereiter, Carl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Centralized mindset; Complexity theory; Design thinking; Knowledge building; Self organization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930033207     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21967091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40561-014-0001-8     Document Type: Review

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