Enhancing online instruction with humor

Teaching of Psychology

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 246-248

  LoSchiavo, Frank M ^a,b   Shatz, Mark A ^a  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Ohio University Zanesville   (United States)

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