Best practices for online business education

International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 61-78

  Grandzol, John R ^a   Grandzol, Christian J ^a  

^a BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Online business education; Online course design

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745213790     PISSN: 14923831     EISSN: 14923831     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.19173/irrodl.v7i1.246     Document Type: Review

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