Computers and Resource-Based History Teaching: A UK Perspective.
This article presents an overview of developments in computer-aided history teaching in higher education in the UK and the US, which have focused primarily on providing students with access to primary sources in order to enhance their understanding of historical methods and content. From an initial...
| Publicado en: | Computers & the Humanities Vol. 34; no. 3; pp. 325 - 344 |
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