Using the web to enable industry-university collaboration: An action research study of a course partnership

Informing Science

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 157-166

  Kock, Ned ^a   Auspitz, Camille ^b   King, Brad ^b  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Day and Zimmermann

Author keywords

Action Research; Collaboration Technologies; Computer Mediated Communication; Course Partnerships; Industry university Collaboration; Process Redesign

Indexed keywords

EID: 14544287551     PISSN: 15214672     EISSN: 15214672     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.28945/591     Document Type: Article

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