Enhancing learning from lectures with epistemic primer podcasts activity - A pilot study

International Journal of Learning Technology

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 323-337

  Popova, Anguelina ^a   Kirschner, Paul A ^a   Joiner, Richard ^b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY OF THE NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adjunct epistemic questions; Advance organisers; Audio; Epistemic activities; Full cycle epistemic activity; Learning; Podcasts; Primer podcasts; Reflection

Indexed keywords

EID: 84949568245     PISSN: 14778386     EISSN: 17418119     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJLT.2014.067735     Document Type: Article

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