Instructional dialogue: Distance education students' dialogic behaviour

Studies in Higher Education

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 735-752

  Caspi, Avner ^a   Gorsky, Paul ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

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EID: 33750526869     PISSN: 03075079     EISSN: 1470174X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03075070601007963     Document Type: Article

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