Role of contracts in enhancing community building in web courses

Educational Technology and Society

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 409-421

  Murphy, Karen L ^a   Mahoney, Sue E ^a   Harvell, Tina J ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Blinn College   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaborative learning; Group learning contract; On line learning community; Project based learning; Web courses

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042575133     PISSN: 11763647     EISSN: 14364522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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