With regard to respect: a framework for governance of educational virtual communities

International Journal of Web Based Communities

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 19-34

  Bell, Frances ^a   Heinze, Aleksej ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

blended learning; e learning; governance; virtual community; web based community

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845707839     PISSN: 14778394     EISSN: 17418216     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJWBC.2004.004796     Document Type: Article

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