Asynchronous Learning Networks as a Virtual Classroom

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 44-49

  Hiltz, Starr Roxanne ^a   Wellman, Barry ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; TEACHING; VIRTUAL REALITY; WIDE AREA NETWORKS;

ASYNCHRONOUS LEARNING NETWORKS (ALN); COMPUTER MEDIATED COMMUNICATION (CMC) SYSTEMS; ELECTRONIC INFORMATION EXCHANGE SYSTEM (EIES); INTERNET; VIRTUAL CLASSROOM;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 0031233004     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/260750.260764     Document Type: Article

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