Online learning in speech and language therapy: Student performance and attitudes

Education for Health: Change in Learning and Practice

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 22-31

  Upton, Dominic ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WORCESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Digital education; E learning; Independent learning; Interactivity; Online learning; Speech and language education

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION PROGRAM; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LANGUAGE TEST; LEARNING; MOTIVATION; ONLINE SYSTEM; PARAMEDICAL EDUCATION; PARAMEDICAL STUDENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIOLOGY; SPEECH AND LANGUAGE; SPEECH THERAPY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STUDENT ATTITUDE; TEACHING;

ATTITUDE; EDUCATION, DISTANCE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INTERNET; LANGUAGE THERAPY; PROGRAM EVALUATION; SPEECH THERAPY;

EID: 33645013213     PISSN: 13576283     EISSN: 14695804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13576280500534735     Document Type: Article

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