Active and collaborative learning strategies for teaching computing

ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Gehringer, Edward ^a,b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; PROBLEM SOLVING; TEACHING;

COLLABORATIVE LEARNING STRATEGIES; LEARNING EXERCISES; TEACHING COMPUTING; WRITTEN COMMENTS;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 85029058552     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21535965     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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