Workflow and end-user quality of service issues in Web-based education

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 673-687

  Vouk, Mladen A ^a,b   Bitzer, Donald L ^a,b   Klevans, Richard L ^c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b North Carolina State University   (United States)

^c FUJITSU LABORATORIES OF AMERICA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER BASED TRAINING; EDUCATION WORKFLOWS; KEYSTROKE RESPONSE TIME; NETWORK BASED EDUCATION; NOVANET SYSTEM; QUALITY OF SERVICE; WEB BASED INSTRUCTION; WEB LECTURE SYSTEM;

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER NETWORKS; DISTANCE EDUCATION; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS); TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION;

EID: 0033157788     PISSN: 10414347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/69.790839     Document Type: Article

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