All aboard - Destination unknown: A sociological discussion of online learning

Educational Technology and Society

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 166-172

  Goldberg, Andra K ^a   Riemer, Frances Julia ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical theory of technology; Distance education; Online classes; Postmodernism; Techno utopianism

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845333012     PISSN: 11763647     EISSN: 14364522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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