The costs and costing of networked learning

Journal of Asynchronous Learning Network

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2001, Pages

  Rumble, Greville ^a,b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Costing; Costs; Distance Education; Economics; Networked Learning; Online Education

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042678175     PISSN: 19395256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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