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This paper reports data obtained on the thinking of Bachelor of Education students as they interacted with World Wide Web (WWW) subject lecture material. The data were obtained from eight participating preservice teachers via stimulated recall interviews. The thinking (or mediating) processes engaged in during study sessions that related to the academic content of the WWW subject are detailed and discussed. The data are also compared with that obtained from an earlier comparative study of the thinking processes of two cohorts of inseryice and preservice teachers: one group interacted with a professional development interactive multimedia (IMM) courseware package and the other with text based materials.
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Henderson, L., Putt, I., Ainge, D., Coombs, G. (1998). Comparison of students’ thinking processes when studying with WWW, IMM, and text based materials. In: Verdejo, F., Davies, G. (eds) The Virtual Campus. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35352-4_10
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