Preparing students for the virtual organisation: An evaluation of learning with virtual learning technologies

Educational Technology and Society

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 54-65

  Andrews, Trish ^a   Schwarz, Gavin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Learning behaviours; On line learning; Team learning; Virtual learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042692752     PISSN: 14364522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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