A formative analysis of how preservice teachers learn to use technology.
A comprehensive, formal comparison of strategies used by preservice teachers to learn how to use new technology has yet to be researched. Understanding the relative strengths and weakness of learning strategies would provide useful guidance to educators and students. The purpose of the current study...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Computer Assisted Learning Vol. 23; no. 5; pp. 366 - 384 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Oct2007
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