Success is not enough: challenges to sustaining new forms of educational activity.

Part of a special issue on afterschool computer programs for children. The writers discuss the need for computer programs to be more than successful initially but also to sustain new forms of educational activity. They note that setting up a Fifth Dimension activity system in a community institutio...

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Publicado en:Computers in Human Behavior Vol. 16; no. 3; pp. 271 - 287
Autores principales: Gallego, M. A., Cole, M.
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Elsevier Science May 2000
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