Modelling routes towards learning goals

Campus-Wide Information Systems

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 312-324

  Tattersall, Colin ^a   Janssen, José ^a   Van Den Berg, Bert ^a   Koper, Rob ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY OF THE NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Curriculum development; E learning; Lifelong learning; Objectives; Standards

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751165263     PISSN: 10650741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/10650740610714071     Document Type: Article

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