Exploring Multiplexity: Social Network Structures in a Computer-Supported Distance Learning Class

Information Society

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 211-226

  Haythornthwaite, Caroline ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Computer There Supported; Computer Mediated Communication(CMC); Computer Supported Collaborative Learning(CSCL); Cooperation; Distance Learning; Distributed Groups; Social Networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035539255     PISSN: 01972243     EISSN: 10876537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01972240152493065     Document Type: Article

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