Measuring perceived quality of social space in distributed learning groups

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 607-632

  Kreijns, Karel ^a   Kirschner, Paul A ^b   Jochems, Wim ^b   Van Buuren, Hans ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY OF THE NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

^b Ctr for Educ Technol/Expertise   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Computer supported collaborative learning; Distributed learning groups; Sociability; Social interaction; Social presence; Social space

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

COLLABORATION; DISTRIBUTED LEARNING GROUPS; SOCIABILITY; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL PRESENCE; SOCIAL SPACE;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 3042647646     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2003.11.002     Document Type: Article

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