Response neighborhoods in online learning networks: A quantitative analysis

Educational Technology and Society

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 90-99

  Aviv, Reuven ^a   Erlich, Zippy ^a   Ravid, Gilad ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

Online Learning Networks; p* analysis; Response Neighborhoods; Social Network Analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 27844540463     PISSN: 11763647     EISSN: 14364522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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