The Digital Agora: Using Technology for Learning in the Social Sciences

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 50-57

  Watters, Carolyn ^a   Conley, Marshall ^a   Alexander, Cynthia ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD-ROM; HYPERTEXT SYSTEMS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; LAPTOP COMPUTERS; MOBILE COMPUTING; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; ONLINE SEARCHING; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

ACADIA UNIVERSITY; DIGITAL AGORA;

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION;

EID: 0031598965     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/268092.268113     Document Type: Article

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