Comparative analysis of Palm and wearable computers for participatory simulations.
Recent educational computer-based technologies have offered promising lines of research that promote social constructivist learning goals, develop skills required to operate in a knowledge-based economy (Roschelle et al. 2000), and enable more authentic science-like problem-solving. In our research...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Computer Assisted Learning Vol. 20; no. 5; pp. 347 - 360 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Oct2004
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