Online teaching: Encouraging collaboration through anonymity

Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1998, Pages

  Chester, Andrea ^a   Gwynne, Gillian ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOR; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; DATA PROCESSING; LEARNING SYSTEMS; TEACHING;

ANONYMITY; COLLABORATIVE LEARNING; CYBERSPACE; ONLINE TEACHING;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 0010008114     PISSN: 10836101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1083-6101.1998.tb00096.x     Document Type: Review

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