Teaching notes: Paper or pixels? an inquiry into how students adapt to online textbooks

Journal of Social Work Education

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 417-427

  Vernon, Robert F ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK   (United States)

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EID: 33745678767     PISSN: 10437797     EISSN: 21635811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5175/JSWE.2006.200404104     Document Type: Article

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