What makes learning networks effective?

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 56-59

  Hiltz, Starr Roxanne ^a   Turoff, Murray ^a  

^a NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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EID: 0041829269     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/505248.505273     Document Type: Article

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