Pedagogy vs. Technocentrism in virtual universities

Journal of Computing in Higher Education

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 25-46

  O'Donoghue, John ^a   Singh, Gurmak ^a,b   Caswell, Sharon ^a   Molyneux, Steve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

e university; online learning; pedagogy; technology; virtual classroom

Indexed keywords

EID: 0005045638     PISSN: 10421726     EISSN: 18671233     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02940943     Document Type: Article

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