Failing to learn: towards a unified design approach for failure-based learning

Educational Technology Research and Development

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 975-994

  Tawfik, Andrew A ^a   Rong, Hui ^b   Choi, Ikseon ^b  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Case based reasoning; Failure; Instructional design; Problem solving; Productive failure; Unified theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84947485855     PISSN: 10421629     EISSN: 15566501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11423-015-9399-0     Document Type: Article

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