Understanding motivations for internet use in distance education

IEEE Transactions on Education

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 301-306

  Stafford, Thomas F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral aspects of computing; Distance education; End user computing; Internet technologies; Uses and Gratifications (U G)

Indexed keywords

DISTANCE EDUCATION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MOTIVATION; STUDENTS; TELECONFERENCING; WORLD WIDE WEB;

END USER COMPUTING; INTERNET TECHNOLOGIES;

INTERNET;

EID: 20344392161     PISSN: 00189359     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TE.2004.842904     Document Type: Article

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