Content: Making it a Boundary Object in the College Classroom

College Teaching

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 119-125

  East, Katheryn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

active learning; assignments; mental models; metaphor

Indexed keywords

EID: 84962653304     PISSN: 87567555     EISSN: 19308299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3200/CTCH.57.2.119-125     Document Type: Article

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