The challenges to distance education in an academic social science discipline: The case of political science

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Volumn 8, Issue , 2000, Pages

  Schmidt, Steffen ^a,d   Shelly, Mack C ^a   Van Wart, Monty ^b   Clayton, Jane ^a   Schreck, Erin ^a,c  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Eaton Company   (United States)

^d Iowa State University ^*  (United States)

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