Development and validation of an instrument for assessing distance education learning environments in higher education: The Distance Education Learning Environments Survey (DELES)

Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 289-308

  Walker, Scott L ^a   Fraser, Barry J ^b  

^a TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Asynchronous learning; DELES; Distance education; Distance learning; Evaluation; Psychosocial learning environment

Indexed keywords

EID: 28844454314     PISSN: 15687759     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10984-005-1568-3     Document Type: Article

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