The evaluation of online courses

Journal of Computer Assisted Learning

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 259-270

  Benigno, V ^a   Trentin, Guglielmo ^a  

^a Istituto Tecnologie Didattiche   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adult; Collaboration; Conferencing; Discourse analysis; Distance learning; Internet; Professional; Questionnaire; Training

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034336381     PISSN: 02664909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2729.2000.00137.x     Document Type: Review

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