Supporting diverse learners through a website for teaching research methods

Educational Technology and Society

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 50-63

  Lie, Kim G ^a   Cano, V ^a  

^a QUEEN MARGARET UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Formative evaluation; Postgraduate education; Student diversity; Teaching research methods; Web based instruction learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042619114     PISSN: 11763647     EISSN: 14364522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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