Distance learning: From multiple snapshots, a composite portrait

Computers and Composition

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 139-161

  Blakelock, Jane ^a   Smith, Tracy E ^a  

^a WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment; Composition; Course caps; Degree completion programs; Distance learning; DL incentives; DL platforms; DL politics; Online courses; Online learning; Pedagogy

Indexed keywords

EID: 32144460807     PISSN: 87554615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compcom.2005.12.008     Document Type: Article

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