Text-based MOOing in educational practice: Experiences of disinhibition

Campus-Wide Information Systems

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 128-137

  Chester, Andrea ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

E learning; Learning; Students; Teaching

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745301891     PISSN: 10650741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/10650740610674148     Document Type: Article

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