Questioning skills facilitate online synchronous discussions

Journal of Computer Assisted Learning

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 303-313

  Wang, C H ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHANGHUA UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

E learning; Online synchronous discussion; Questioning skills

Indexed keywords

EID: 22944489566     PISSN: 02664909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2729.2005.00138.x     Document Type: Article

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