Exploring novice users' training needs in searching information on the WWW

Journal of Computer Assisted Learning

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 326-335

  Lazonder, Ard W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Application software; Case study; Information literacy; Information systems; Internet; Post secondary; Qualitative; Training

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034339034     PISSN: 02664909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2729.2000.00145.x     Document Type: Article

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