Towards the information society - The case of Finnish teacher education

Informatics in Education

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 285-300

  Rautopuro, Juhani ^a   Pöntinen, Susanna ^a   Kukkonen, Jari ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Dimensions of a good online learning environment; ICT in education; Teacher education

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750206360     PISSN: 16485831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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