A research methodology: The development of survey instruments for research into online learning in higher education

Issues in Educational Research

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Siragusa, Lou ^a   Dixon, Kathryn C ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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