Socio-cultural analysis of two cases of distance learning in secondary education

Education and Information Technologies

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 249-262

  Davis, Niki ^a   Niederhauser, Dale S ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Communities of practice; Curriculum; Information communication technologies (ICT); Management; Virtual schooling

Indexed keywords

EID: 24044491933     PISSN: 13602357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10639-005-3006-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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