Selecting research areas and research design approaches in distance education: Process-issues

International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2004, Pages

  Passi, B K ^a   Mishra, Sudarshan ^b  

^a King Mongkutt's Univ of Technology   (Thailand)

^b Army Institute of Education   (India)

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EID: 10344262594     PISSN: 14923831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.19173/irrodl.v5i3.203     Document Type: Review

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