Educational informatics: An emerging research agenda

Journal of Information Science

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 298-310

  Levy, Philippa ^a   Ford, Nigel ^a   Foster, Jonathon ^a   Madden, Andrew ^a   Miller, David ^a   Nunes, Miguel Baptista ^a   McPherson, Maggie ^a   Webber, Sheila ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE; EDUCATION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; RESEARCH; SEMANTICS;

EDUCATIONAL INFORMATICS; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES (ICT);

INFORMATION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0141862969     PISSN: 01655515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/01655515030294006     Document Type: Article

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