Support for simulation-based learning: The effect of assignments in learning about transmission lines

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1108, Issue , 1996, Pages 9-26

  De Jong, Ton ^a   Härtel, Hermann ^b   Swaak, Janine ^a   van Joolingen, Wouter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS EDUCATION   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC LINES;

ASSESSMENT PROCEDURE; DISCOVERY LEARNING; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; INSTRUCTIONAL GOALS; LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; SIMULATION ENVIRONMENT; SIMULATION-BASED LEARNING;

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION;

EID: 84947785236     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/bfb0022586     Document Type: Conference Paper

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