Learning with invisible others: Perceptions of online presence and their relationship to cognitive and affective learning

Educational Technology and Society

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 54-62

  Russo, Tracy ^a   Benson, Spencer ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Affective learning; Cognitive learning; Immediacy; Online presence

Indexed keywords

EID: 21244462333     PISSN: 11763647     EISSN: 14364522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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